National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Marian S. Baumann was a laboratory technician at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Mildred McNamee worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
As a counselor at Oak Ridge, Marge Shipley was repsonsible for listening to and mediating the frustrations and anxieties of the female mechanics and operators working in the Y-12 plant.
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
