National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Irene LaViolette was born in Manhattan in 1920. After she finished kindergarten, her family moved to Greece, where her grandparents lived, due to diminishing economic prospects in the United States.
Robert R. Williamson was a laboratory assistant and computer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Marilyn Hanna was trained as a clerk typist, and worked for the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge and later for the Security and Patent divisions in Washington, DC.
