National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Peter Lax is a Hungarian-born American mathematician. Lax and his family left Hungary for America in 1941, just days before Pearl Harbor.
James Downey was a laboratory helper at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Virgil Harris worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. After the war, he worked for Sandia National Laboratories.
