James F. Margiotta

Fred Vaslow

Fred Vaslow, a physical chemist, began working on the Manhattan Project while a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

Marjorie Shipley

As a counselor at Oak Ridge, Marge Shipley was repsonsible for listening to and mediating the frustrations and anxieties of the female mechanics and operators working in the Y-12 plant.

George Maresh

Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was an American theoretical physicist and the 1965 Nobel Prize winner. During the summer of 1943, Schwinger briefly worked on the development of the atomic bomb at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.