National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Elsie Mae Freeman was born in Missouri in 1900. She graduated high school in Chicago. After graduating, Elsie was recruited to work in a lab at the University of Chicago in 1919.
Leon O. Jacobson was Associate Director of the Health Division and Section Chief of H-I, Clinical Medicine and Medical Research, at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
