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Nannilee Saunders

Project StaffLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Nannilee Saunders set up the elementary at Los Alamos, NM, during the Manhattan Project. She began to work at Los Alamos in August 1943, working for 11 months while on a leave of absence from a college in Chicago.

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