National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Samuel Goudsmit (1902-1978) was a Dutch-American physicist. In May 1944, Goudsmit became scientific director of the Manhattan Project’s Alsos Mission, a top-secret operation responsible for gathering intelligence on Germany’s atomic program.
John Douglas Cockcroft was a British physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was a member of the Tizard Mission to the United States in the autumn of 1940.
