National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
L. Gorton worked for the J.A. Jones Construction Company.
Mathias (“Matthew”) Antone Thennes was born in 1895. He served in WW1 with the 39th Division, 153rd Regiment, in France.
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
