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Selma Shupp

Technician, Chemistry DivisionChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Selma Shupp was a technician in the Chemistry Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. 

Shupp was born in Palo, Iowa in 1923. She was a teacher in Palo before joining the Manhattan Project in 1944. At the Met Lab, Shupp worked with the U-233 Group.

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