National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lauchlin M. Currie was born in 1897. Currie was a chemical engineer who worked in barrier production at the Houdaille-Hershey plant in Decatur, IL.
Chemist Orville Hill joined the Met Lab at the University of Chicago in May of 1942, three months after it was created.
Mary McCormick was a secretary at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
