National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joe McKibben was born and raised in rural Missouri before obtaining a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin.
Stanley Krzyck was a security guard at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Alvin Graves (1909-1965) was an American physicist. Graves was invited to join the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory and in 1942 he accepted the position and became a member of the Manhattan Project.