Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Rebecca Erbelding

Historian, Archivist, and CuratorWashington, DC

Expert
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding Listen to Rebecca Erbelding’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Rebecca Erbelding is a historian of American responses to the Holocaust. Erbelding is the author of the forthcoming book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, and currently an archivist and curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University.

Related Profiles

Bernard T. Feld

Chicago, IL

Bernard T. Feld was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Inge-Juliana Sackmann Christy

Inge-Juliana Sackmann Christy is a physicist and author. Sackmann Christy was born in 1942 in Germany.

Brehon B. Somervell

Washington, DC

Brehon Burke “Bill” Somervell (1892-1955) was a Lieutenant General in the US Army who commanded the Army Service Forces and supervised much of the Army’s involvement in the Manhattan Project.

Ross Gunn

Washington, DC

Ross Gunn was an American physicist and engineer who aided in the development of isotope separation methods during the Manhattan Project.