National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) was a Chinese American physicist. During the Manhattan Project, she worked at Columbia University, helping develop the process for separating uranium metal into U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Julia Elaine Freeman graduated high school early at age 16. She was also the only African American woman in her high school graduating class of 1940.
