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Mildred Thompson

StenographerChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Mildred Thompson was a stenographer at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. 

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