Description

Group portrait of influential figures in the Manhattan Project. Pictured from left to right, seated: General Leslie R. Goves, Vannevar Bush, Enrico Fermi, Brigadier General Kenneth D. Nichols, George B. Pegram, and Lyman J. Briggs. Standing from left are Charles A. Tomas, James B. Conant, Arthur H. Compton, Eger V. Murphree, and Crawford H. Greenewalt. Original caption: "Brig. Gen. Kenneth D. McHale[?], Manhattan District Engineer".