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Gertrude F. Steel

Junior ChemistChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranScientist
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Gertrude Steel was a junior chemist at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

 

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