National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Haskell Sheinberg arrived at Los Alamos in late 1944 as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. Sheinberg’s first assignment was to purify plutonium under the direction of Arthur Wahl, one of the co-discoverers of plutonium.
Harrison Brown (1917-1986) was an American geochemist. He worked at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) and Oak Ridge sites during the Manhattan Project.
