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Betty B. Morgan was a research assistant in the Health Division at the University of Chicago Met Lab. 

After earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry at the University of Texas, she and her husband Leon O. (“Tom”) Morgan joined the Manhattan Project in Chicago in 1944. After the war, she served for many years as a librarian in the Austin public schools.

Betty B. Morgan's Timeline
1921 Apr 23rd Born in Terrell, Texas.
1941 Received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin.
1943 Received a Master's in Chemistry from the University of Texas.
1943 Joined the Manhattan Project as a research assistant in the Health Division at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory.
2013 Nov 13th Died in Austin, Texas.

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