Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Mary Alice Nachtrieb

ChemistLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistWoman Scientist
Mary Alice Nachtrieb

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

Related Profiles

E. S. Ethridge

Y-12 Plant

E. S. Ethridge worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Luzell Johnson

Hanford, WA

Luzell Johnson left a factory job in Alabama for a much higher-paying one as a cement finisher at Hanford.

William A. Hichler

Chicago, IL

William A. Hichler was a laboratory helper at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Edgar R. Jones

Los Alamos, NM