National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Jerrold Zacharias (1905-1986) was an American physicist who became the Director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT.
Robert “Bob” Hayes worked as an airplane mechanic on Kwajalein Island, maintaining Boeing B-29s. He talks about life in the Pacific during World War II, being trained to use a flamethrower on Iwo Jima, maintaining complicated airplane engines, and witnessing the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.
Dixie Bigler worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
