National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Merlin Peterson was an American chemist. Peterson was born in 1910 in Provo, Utah. He received a B.S.
Butler worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Melvin H. Bierman served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Bierman was regularly assigned as a tail gunner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
