National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Mary Lou Curtis joined the Manhattan Project in Dayton, Ohio in 1943. Mrs. Curtis worked in the Counting Room at Monsanto’s Unit III facility, where she developed new methods to measure and analyze radioactive materials, such as polonium, which was used as the trigger for the atomic bombs.
Rubby Sherr (1913-2013) was an American physicist. Shortly after finishing his Ph.D. at Princeton University, Sherr was performing groundbreaking radar research at the MIT Radiation Lab.
Mabel Evarts worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Juan de Jesus Trujillo was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
