National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joan Hinton (1921-2010) was an American physicist who later defected to China. Hinton was born into a precocious family.
Laverne Bloom worked as a Military Policeman from 1945-1946 in Hanford, Washington. While not on guard duty, Bloom often cooked for his troop and occasionally made meals for the director of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves.
Owens worked as a “Calutron Girl” at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
