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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. 

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