National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Staley worked at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
TJ Paulus is an electrical engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During World War II, Paulus’s parents housed women working at Oak Ridge at their home in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dorothy worked at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project as a “calutron girl.” After her brother was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, she was eager to join the war effort, and did so starting in 1944.