National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Gerry Pawlicki was an American physicist. Pawlicki was born in 1921. He received a B.S. in physics at De Paul University in Chicago, and soon after was hired to work on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab as a member of the instruments division.
Gus Essig began working on the Manhattan Project in May, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio. Essig was selected to work in the highly classified initiator program and spent several months at Los Alamos learning how to design and construct initiators.
Richard Strickland was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Arthur Adamson (1919-2003) was an American chemist. Adamson was born on August 15, 1919 in Shanghai, China to American parents.
