Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Virginia Meschke

ChemistChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistWoman Scientist

Virginia Meschke was a chemist and technician at the University of Chicago Met Lab. She specialized in plutonium chemistry. In May of 1946, she joined the Solvent-Extraction Group.

Related Profiles

F. A. Inda

Oak Ridge, TN

F. A. Inda worked for the United States Engineer District Office.

Albert Einstein

Princeton, NJ

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Ernest W. Korthals

Tinian Island

Ernest W. Korthals served in the 1027th Air Material Squadron.

Richard Hopcus

Los Alamos, NM