Myfanwy Pritchard-Roberts

Laboratory AssistantBritain

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Listen to Myfanwy Pritchard-Roberts’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Myfanwy Pritchard Roberts worked in Rhydymwyn, Wales as a laboratory assistant in the Tube Alloys program, the British mission to create the nuclear bomb.

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