Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Marie Cardwell

Plant Document LibrarianY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Alpha Racetrack at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

Marie Cardwell arrived in Oak Ridge in February, 1945. She was hired as the Document Librarian for the Y-12 Plant and held for the remainder of the Manhattan Project, and for several decades afterwards.

Related Profiles

Francis M. Steiner

Oak Ridge, TN

W. H. Ray

X-10 Graphite Reactor

W. H. Ray worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Columbia University

Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist and 1963 Nobel Prize winner.

L. W. Wendlandt

Tinian Island

L. W. Wendlandt served in the 390th Air Service Group.