National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Hope Sloan was 25 in 1944, a dark-haired WAC corporal and secretary in military intelligence. In July, she joined the construction camp's morale-building effort by entering a beauty contest, part of an "exposition "promoting safety on and off the job.
Earl Thomas was an American physicist. After receiving his Ph.D. from CalTech in 1943, he moved to New Mexico to work with the Navy on rocket design and production for the Manhattan Project.
Richard Gluck worked in the Shop at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the Manhattan Project.
