Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Adele Koskosky

Laboratory TechnicianChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Adele Koskosky was a laboratory technician in the Chemistry Division at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

According to the Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg, Vol. 3, Koskosky was transferred from Property to L. R. Dawson’s Recovery group on October 30, 1944 (Seaborg, p. 315). Koskosky stopped working at the Met Lab on December 29, 1944 (Seaborg, p. 430).

Related Profiles

William M. Hackman

Y-12 Plant

William Hackman worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

T. R. Cartmell

Research & Development/300 Area

Cartmell worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Charles R. McKinney

Oak Ridge, TN

The following are excerpts from “Converging Lines,” a genealogy and family history book researched and written by Norma McKinney, as well as oral recollections from her in 2011 and Charles’ remembrances to his grandson in 1990 for an eighth grade report.

Carlos Driggars

Los Alamos, NM