10/6/10

The atomic age began in small laboratories with a handful of scientists long before Trinity. The exhibition will describe these early discoveries by pioneer physicists, as well as highlight scientists associated with the Manhattan Project, explore President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative, and examine the direct influence and impact of these events on modern peaceful applications of nuclear science in energy and medicine.

Jeff Wisoff is the Principal Deputy Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, home to the world's largest and highest'energy laser. The NIF has the goal of achieving nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for the first time—in essence, creating a miniature star on Earth.

Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-three books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. A fourth and final volume of nuclear history, The Twilight of the Bomb, will be published in August 2010.

Dwight Williams is the President and CEO of Mixed Greens Energy, the Martin Luther King Visiting Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and the Chief Engineer and Principal Nuclear Physicist in the U.S. Department of Defense, Technical Applications Division.