National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Gerry Pawlicki was an American physicist. Pawlicki was born in 1921. He received a B.S. in physics at De Paul University in Chicago, and soon after was hired to work on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab as a member of the instruments division.
Walt Grisham grew up on a farm at Hanford in the 1930s. He was serving in the Air Force in England during World War II when his parents were informed that they would need to leave the farm – the site was being requisitioned for the Manhattan Project.
Majory Danberg worked in the stenographic and clerical division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
