Mary Alice Nachtrieb

ChemistLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistWoman Scientist

Mary Alice Nachtrieb was a chemist who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Her speciality was in plutonium chemitsry.

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