Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Gladys Evans

Calutron GirlOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Listen to Gladys Evans’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Gladys Evans worked as a Calutron girl at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN. She experienced the living conditions at Oak Ridge, including the weather, heightened security, and social life.

Gladys Evans’s Timeline
1944 Jan First arrived at Oak Ridge.

Related Profiles

Manuel Schwartz

Los Alamos, NM

Manuel Schwartz was a physicist. He worked at Los Alamos as a civilian employee from about July 6, 1944, until January or February 1946.

Ira L. Crowson

Los Alamos, NM

Ben T. Cherry

Oak Ridge, TN

Ben Cherry worked for the Fercleve Corporation.

Stanley Stief

K-25 Plant

Stanley Stief attended Pennsylvania State University.  He remained in the Oak Ridge area, working first for the government and later for Union Carbide.