National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Minnie (Heller) Steinberg was a junior biologist in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Samuel Proctor Massie Jr. (1919-2005) was an African American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
Before her time at Oak Ridge, Alice Stein was a stenographer. With a lack of need for stenographers, Alice began working in production for war planes until she asked to operate cyclotrons at the Y-12 plant.
