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Calutron Girls photographed by Ed Westcott at their calutron control panels at Y-12. The Calutron Girls were a group of young women—mostly high school graduates—who had joined the Manhattan Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex located at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from 1943 to 1945.
The calutrons were initially operated by scientists from Berkeley to remove bugs and achieve a reasonable operating rate. Then the Tennessee Eastman operators took over. Nichols compared unit production data, and pointed out to Lawrence that the young "hillbilly" girl operators were outproducing his Ph.Ds.
The girls were "trained like soldiers not to reason why", while "the scientists could not refrain from time-consuming investigation of the cause of even minor fluctuations of the dials". [8] The young women that worked in this capacity came to be known as "Calutron Girls." [9]
They were then turned over to trained Tennessee Eastman operators who had only a high school education. Nichols compared unit production data and pointed out to Lawrence that the young "hillbilly" girl operators, known as Calutron Girls, were outperforming his doctorate-level scientists. They agreed to a production race and Lawrence lost, a ...
The storyteller will give four free public performances Feb. 20-23 at different Oak Ridge venues during Black History Month. The festival committee had commissioned her in 2021 to develop and ...
Every Beatles fan has the iconography of this first American visit in their head: the plane at JFK, the quippy press conferences, the screaming girls swarming the car, the Ed Sullivan Show, the D ...
Kentucky resident Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge to celebrate her 101st birthday. She helped make the first atomic bomb.
1943: the Manhattan project hires the Calutron Girls, a large group of young girls to monitor dials and watch meters for calutrons, mass spectrometers adapted for separation of uranium isotopes, unaware of the purpose of the project. [96] 1943: Berta Karlik discovers astatine as a product of two naturally occurring decay chains. [97]