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. Although they were not allowed to know at the time, they were monitoring dials and watching meters for calutrons, mass spectrometers adapted for separation of uranium isotopes for the development of nuclear weapons for use during World War II. The enriched uranium was used to make the "Little Boy" atomic bomb for the Hiroshima nuclear bombing on August 6, 1945.
The CalutronGirls were a group of young women—mostly high school graduates—who had joined the Manhattan Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex...
A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest Lawrence during the Manhattan...
to manage Y-12. The calutrons were turned over to trained Tennessee Eastman operators known as the CalutronGirls. The calutrons initially enriched the...
Edmonton Journal. 7 August 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 1 January 2012. "The CalutronGirls". SmithDRay. Retrieved 22 June 2011. Beck, Alfred M, et al., United...
and pointed out to Lawrence that the young "hillbilly" girl operators, known as CalutronGirls, were outperforming his doctorate-level scientists. They...
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more women, including the “CalutronGirls”, who worked at Y-12 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory monitoring the Calutron. More than 60,000 Army nurses...
Manhattan project hires the CalutronGirls, a large group of young girls to monitor dials and watch meters for calutrons, mass spectrometers adapted for...
uranium-238. This was done in a quite different manner from that used by the calutron that was under development by a team under Wilson's former mentor, Ernest...
clone), and convince him to go to Falcon's Edge, supposedly to photograph a calutron left over from the Soviet era, over fears that Drake is trying to activate...
and were given a tour of the Y-12 National Security Complex's historic Calutrons (used to separate the uranium 235 for Little Boy, the first atomic bomb...
Town Market, Grove Center" Calutron operators at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge. This photo motivated Denise Kiernan to write Girls of Atomic City. Workers...
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