National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Miriam P. Finkel was an associate biologist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Although the flow of information about the Manhattan Project was tightly controlled, New York Times reporter William L.
Sarah Bailey was very young when she went to work at the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge. She was employed by Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corporation, a contractor in the gaseous diffusion operation, in 1945.