National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard Claassen was a research assistant at the SAM Lab at Columbia University from 1944 to 1946. While there, he built and used fluidic systems to test for unusual leaks in diffuser tubes.
Richard Tolman (1881-1948) was an American physicist and chemist. Starting in 1940, Tolman served as Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and was also the Chairman of the Armor and Ordnance Division of the NDRC.
William Sturm (1918-1999) was an American physicist. William Sturm was a graduate student at the University of Chicago when he was recruited to the Manhattan Project.
