National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
In a communication to Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, General Leslie Groves gave instruction to discontinue work on the Y-12 Alpha 1 4-J unit, and, authorized Westinghouse Electric Corporation to hire additional draftsmen to accelerate the Y-12 Alpha 2 30-J uranium enrichment program at Oak Ridge, TN.
Elsie Mae Freeman was born in Missouri in 1900. She graduated high school in Chicago. After graduating, Elsie was recruited to work in a lab at the University of Chicago in 1919.
