National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Peggy Bowditch was a young girl when she and her family moved to Los Alamos in 1943. Her father, Rear Admiral William Sterling “Deak” Parsons, was chosen by General Groves to become head of ordnance for the Manhattan Project.
Jane Greer Puckett was a mathematician-statistician in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. Early Years Puckett was born on May 24, 1922 in Paris, Tennessee.