National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Mary T. Burke was a research assistant in the Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) at the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Irwin P. Sharpe was born in 1921 and died just short of his 100th birthday in 2021. He was recruited for the Manhattan Project by his employer, General Electric, after he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering in 1942.
Worthington worked in the chemical department of the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
Joyce Clennam Stearns (1893-1948) was an American physicist who served as Director of the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) from November 15, 1944 to July 1, 1945.
