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Louella Simmons

Procurement and PropertyChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Louella Simmons was a procurement and property worker at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

She was married to fellow Met Lab worker, Julius Simmons.

Simmons died in 1973. 

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