National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Thomas McNamara worked in Oak Ridge Tennesee with his wife Mildred Wilton from 1942 to 1946. Prior to accepting a job at Oak Ridge, McNamara had worked at the Charlestown Navy Shipyard in Boston.
George S. Monk was a physicist at the University of Chicago Met Lab and an expert on optics. He was married to the mathematician Ardis Monk.
James R. Corliss served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was regularly assigned to work as a flight engineer on the Up An’ Atom but did not fly in that plane during the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
