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H. S. Mantooth

Y-12 Plant

H. S. Mantooth worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

William “Bill” Ginkel

Idaho Falls

Bill Ginkel was born in Rochester, New York on August 14th, 1920. After graduating from Madison High School, Ginkel spent five years studying Chemical Engineering and Business at the University of Rochester, where he graduated in 1943.

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Mary Lou Curtis

Dayton, OH

Mary Lou Curtis joined the Manhattan Project in Dayton, Ohio in 1943. Mrs. Curtis worked in the Counting Room at Monsanto’s Unit III facility, where she developed new methods to measure and analyze radioactive materials, such as polonium, which was used as the trigger for the atomic bombs.