Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Marle L. Velde

Project StaffK-25 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The K-25 Plant at Oak Ridge

Marle Velde worked for the Kellex Corporation at the K-25 Plant.

Related Profiles

Helen Atchley

Y-12 Plant

Helen Atchley worked at the Y-12 Plant during the Manhattan Project. She and her best friend, Dorothy Stinnett, are both pictured in Ed Westcott’s famous photograph of people going to work in the Y-12 Plant.

Lewis Preston

Oak Ridge, TN

Dr. Lewis Preston arrived in Oak Ridge in 1944. A recent graduate of the Baylor University College of Medicine, he joined the Army Medical Corps.

Jimmy Vale

University of California, Berkeley

Jimmy Vale joined the Manhattan Project in 1943, where he helped operate calutrons as part of Ernest O.

Howard W. Bigelow

Los Alamos, NM