National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John Tempka (1923-2017) was an American engineer. Tempka was born in Boydsville, Ohio. He was studying at the University of Detroit when he was recruited to join the U.
Ernest E. Wollan was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
William Penney (1909-1991) was a British mathematician and physicist. William Penney’s first assignment of the war was a research position with the Royal Navy, studying collisions, explosions and shockwaves and searching for ways to use hydrodynamics to assist the navy.
