National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
Fred VanWyck moved to Richland with his wife Diana in 1944 from Charleston, West Virginia, where Van worked at DuPont's Belle Plant as a technician.
Pierce worked in the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Walter Goodman joined the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos in 1943. Goodman worked as an electrical engineer on the implosion bomb with Manhattan Project scientists Luis Alvarez and Harold Agnew.
