National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
R. O. Irwin worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Dora Hooks worked for the Edenfield Electric Company.
Mary Lou Curtis joined the Manhattan Project in Dayton, Ohio in 1943. Mrs. Curtis worked in the Counting Room at Monsanto’s Unit III facility, where she developed new methods to measure and analyze radioactive materials, such as polonium, which was used as the trigger for the atomic bombs.
