Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Gladys Owens

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Alpha Racetrack at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

Owens worked as a “Calutron Girl” at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Gerald D. Smelker

Los Alamos, NM

Edred B. Williams

Los Alamos, NM

Cynthia Redtke

Los Alamos, NM

Ernest O. Wollan

Oak Ridge, TN

Ernest Omar Wollan was a physicist who helped pioneer the fields of health physics and neutron diffraction.