National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
R. F. Perkins worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1942, Fermi relocated to the Chicago Met Lab, where he built an experimental reactor pile under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.
Albert Cahn, Jr. (1910-1978) was a junior physicist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Lloyd G. Conner served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
