National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard O. Tigner served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) was a Chinese American physicist. During the Manhattan Project, she worked at Columbia University, helping develop the process for separating uranium metal into U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Helen Williams was a stenographer and clerk at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Paul J. Esterline was an engineer. He attended Ohio State University for two years, and then attended the Chicago Technical Institute in the late 1920s, learned engineering drafting there.
