National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Robert Ellingson arrived in Oak Ridge in June 1943. Shortly after Ellingson arrived, however, he was informed by his employer, Tennessee Eastman, that they already had too many chemists and chemical engineers.
William Kann was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Leona Woods, later Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Marshall Libby, was perhaps the most well-known woman scientist working on the Manhattan Project.
