 In early 1942 , Arthur Compton concentrated the Manhattan Project 's various teams working on plutonium at the University of Chicago . This brought in many top scientists including Herbert Anderson , Bernard Feld , Enrico Fermi , Leó Szilárd and Walter Zinn from Columbia , and Edward Creutz , Gilbert Plass , Eugene Wigner and John Wheeler from Princeton University . Weinberg became a protégé of Wigner . 
