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Evelyn J. Brown

Laboratory AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Chicago Pile-1

Evelyn Brown was a laboratory assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. She worked with a number of other women technicians, such as Addie Saunders, Nellie Jennings, Eleese Bowman, Julia Elaine Freeman, Valda B. Lemke, and Marilyn Jordan.

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