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Marilyn Jordan

Laboratory Assistant; Chemistry DivisionChicago, IL

Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker

Marilyn Jordan was a laboratory assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. She worked with a number of other women technicians, such as Addie SaundersNellie JenningsEleese BowmanJulia Elaine FreemanValda B. Lemke, and Evelyn J. Brown.

She married chemist Henry Hoekstra in August 1944.

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