National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Before her time at Oak Ridge, Alice Stein was a stenographer. With a lack of need for stenographers, Alice began working in production for war planes until she asked to operate cyclotrons at the Y-12 plant.
Roberta A. Edwards was a lab technician in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Harold Hoover was a member of the Special Engineer Detachment during the Manhattan Project. He worked as a filter foreman at the Y-12 Plant, but his real job was in counterintelligence, to ensure no sabotage occurred.
