National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Allred worked as a chemical operator at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. While at Oak Ridge, she was nominated as a contestant in the “Miss Atomic Bomb” beauty pageant.
Robert Traver was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Neil Gleason worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Blanche J. Lawrence was an African-American research assistant in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
