National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Jacob Knox was an American chemist. Knox was born in 1904 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and went on to receive an M.
A. C. Skortz worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
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.
