National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joan Elizabeth Curran (1916-1999) was a Welsh physicist. Curran was born in Swansea, Wales. During World War II, she worked on Operation Windows, where she invented the “chaff,” a technique which could disrupt enemy radar.
W. C. Crye worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Myfanwy Pritchard Roberts worked in Rhydymwyn, Wales as a laboratory assistant in the Tube Alloys program, the British mission to create the nuclear bomb.
