National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Allred worked as a chemical operator at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. While at Oak Ridge, she was nominated as a contestant in the “Miss Atomic Bomb” beauty pageant.
Haskell Sheinberg arrived at Los Alamos in late 1944 as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. Sheinberg’s first assignment was to purify plutonium under the direction of Arthur Wahl, one of the co-discoverers of plutonium.
Marion Van Gemert was born in Wisconsin. She received her bachelor’s degree in home economics from Stout State College.
Robert Cyr worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
