National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Moddie Daniel Taylor (1912-1976) was a chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project from 1943-1945. Early Years Taylor was born in Nymph, Alabama on March 3, 1912.
Velva Irwin worked as a Calutron girl at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN. She was only 16 when she began working on the Manhattan Project.
Theodore “Ted” Hall (1925-1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy who passed along detailed information about the implosion-type “Fat Man” bomb and several processes for purifying plutonium to the Soviet Union.
