National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Ralph Lapp was an American physicist. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1917. He was completing his PhD at the University of Chicago when he stumbled upon Enrico Fermi’s team working under Stagg’s Field in December of 1942, and was hired on the spot to work on the development of the atomic bomb.
Dorotha “Dot” Hogan Crisp, from Midway in Greene County, TN, began working for Tennessee Eastman Corporation as a cubicle operator, better known as a “Calutron Girl,” at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge in 1944, before transferring to the Y-12 personnel office as a clerical assistant in 1945.
Lorene Sturgess was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Attended Louisiana State University.
