National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Wilcox P. Overbeck was a research associate and instrumentation designer at the Chicago Met Lab. He was responsible for calling out the neutron count when Chicago Pile-1 went critical on December 2, 1942.
William P. Jesse was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Naomi Livesay French was an American mathematician. During the Manhattan Project, she worked at Los Alamos for a group in the theoretical division responsible for performing calculations in connection to the theory of implosion.
