National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Horace Russell was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He graduated from Duke in 1938 with a degree in chemistry and was remembered by his classmates as a brilliant chemist.
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.
L. E. Johnston worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
Paul Winston worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
