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Carolyn M. Schottmiller

Laboratory Assistant, Health DivisionChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Carolyn M. Schottmiller was an American medical professional. Schottmiller was born on November 20, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. She was a laboratory technician in the Health Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

After the war, she worked as a medical technician at the Hinsdale TB Sanitarium in Hinsdale, IL until her retirement in 1979.

Schottmiller died on January 19, 2017 at the age of 99.

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