National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Owens worked as a “Calutron Girl” at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
Virginia Ballard was born in Charleston, West Virginia. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Scotland.
Edward F. “Ed” Hammel was an American chemist. Hammel had just completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University when he joined a Canadian heavy water project sponsored by the school in 1941.
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was born on June 11th, 1915, in Chicago. In 1936 he received his bachelor’s degree, and in 1941, his doctorate, both from the University of Chicago, and both in experimental physics.
