National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Isabel Torres worked at the Los Alamos laboratory during and after the Manhattan Project. She commuted from the neighboring community of Santa Cruz, first by truck, then by bus.
Velva Irwin worked as a Calutron girl at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN. She was only 16 when she began working on the Manhattan Project.
Evelyn O. Gaston was a laboratory technician in the Health Division at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
