National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Matthew Sands (1919-2014) was an American physicist. In 1943, Matthew Sands began working for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and developed two types of influence mines before being disillusioned by the bureaucracy of the navy.
Lorraine Barbic was a technical worker in the Chemical Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Elwin Covey was an assistant and protégé to Glenn Seaborg, and spent most of his time with the Manhattan Project at the X-10 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Victor C. Hamister was a consultant to the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
