National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
James Franck (1882-1964) was a German physicist and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics. During the Manhattan Project, Franck served as Director of the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist. Meitner was part of the team that discovered and explained nuclear fission and foresaw its explosive potential.
