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Julia M. Wynne

ChemistOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Manhattan Project Veteran
The Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Julia Wynne was a chemist in the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from June 1944 through the end of the war. Wynne, of Dodge County, Georgia, graduated cum laude from Berry College in 1944. She was immediately hired by the Eastman Tennessee Division as a chemist. Sometime in the fall or early winter of 1944-1945, she suffered radiation burns of the hands, arms and abdomen while working in Y-12. After receiving treatment, she was placed in a job at the Bell B-29 plant in Marietta, Georgia.

After the war, she received a M.A. in Education from the University of Georgia. 

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