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Hilda C. Uchiyamada

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Hilda Uchiyamada was a research assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

After the war, she taught physics and mathematics at various colleges. 
Uchiyamada died on January 21, 2009 in Bangor, Maine at the age of 94.
 

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