National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Merlin Peterson was an American chemist. Peterson was born in 1910 in Provo, Utah. He received a B.S.
E. H. White worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Dorothy worked at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project as a “calutron girl.” After her brother was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, she was eager to join the war effort, and did so starting in 1944.
