National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John Perry Howe, Jr. was Associate Director at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
