National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard Tolman (1881-1948) was an American physicist and chemist. Starting in 1940, Tolman served as Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and was also the Chairman of the Armor and Ordnance Division of the NDRC.
Although the flow of information about the Manhattan Project was tightly controlled, New York Times reporter William L.
Sherman Winters was a janitor at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
