Special Events Gift Shop Volunteer Opportunities Membership Museum Home . Pioneers of Science Learn about the lives and scientific theories of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Stanislaw Ulam. See remotely operated robots and robots that weld, work on assembly lines and submarines.
Exhibit includes hands on activities and a video about developments in robotics.
Diagnostic brain and skeleton scans taken by a gamma camera. Seeing is Healing The story of nuclear medicine from the early years of radiation and the discovery of polonium to a nuclear pharmacy and a gamma camera used by physicians to see how a person's body is functioning. The Manhattan Project Experience the secrecy of the United States' project to build the world's first atomic bomb and test the device in Trinity, New Mexico. Within a few years of the end of World War II, the U.S. and its one time ally, the Soviet Union, became opponents in a new kind of war. In 1949 the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb and the Cold War arms race escalated.