National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Myrtle E. Karcher was a laboratory technician in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
The following are excerpts from “Converging Lines,” a genealogy and family history book researched and written by Norma McKinney, as well as oral recollections from her in 2011 and Charles’ remembrances to his grandson in 1990 for an eighth grade report.