From the archives: A physicist born this day who later worked at Los Alamos

On this day in 1919, physicist David L. Hill was born in Booneville, Mississippi; he went on to work at the University of Chicago on the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction during the Manhattan Project. After the war he joined the Theoretical Physics Division of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, where he worked from 1954 to 1958, according to the National Park Service's Manhattan Project profile of Hill.