Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Susan W. Bowen

ChemistOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistWoman Scientist
The Chapel on the Hill in Oak Ridge

Susan Woodson Bowen (1925-2017) was an American chemist.

Bowen was born in Rich Creek, Virginia. She earned a B.S. from Roanoke College and a Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill. During World War II, Bowen worked on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war, she was a chemist for the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, a position she would hold for 33 years.

Susan Bowen died on July 26, 2017, in Blacksburg, Virginia.

 

Related Profiles

Clyde Howard

Y-12 Plant

Clyde Howard worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Walter Morris

Oak Ridge, TN

Walter Morris worked for the Oak Ridge Recreation and Welfare Association.

Winifred T. Koziolek

Chicago, IL

Winifred T. Koziolek was a laboratory technician the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

G. S. Vigen

Hanford, WA