National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Byron Johnson worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Anthony D. Capua, Jr. served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was regularly assigned as an assistant engineer/scanner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Nancy Farley Wood (1903-2003) was an American physicist, teacher, businesswoman, and activist. Born on a farm in Missouri on July 12, 1903, Wood graduated from Warrensburg Teachers College and taught mathematics and physics.
George Volkoff (1914-2000) was a Russian-Canadian physicist. He was one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s first Ph.
