National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lawrence Litz was a young physicist when he began working on radioactivity at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
D. D. Drake worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
Myrtle Claire Bachelder was an American chemist and Women’s Army Corps officer stationed in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
