The Girls of Atomic City (63 page)

Mellor’s Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry,
119

Mendeleev, Dmitri,
34

Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab),
see
Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Midwest Piping,
102

Miller, J. Howard,
30

Milne, A. A.,
76

Modern Screen,
127

Morgan, Fred,
24

Motohashi, Major,
289
–90

Murrow, Edward R.,
217

Museum of Atomic Energy,
304

Mussolini, Benito,
61
,
227

Mutual Broadcasting Company,
155

M. W. Kellogg,
259

N

Nagasaki,
252

atomic bombing of,
272
–73,
288
–89,
291

Nature,
32
,
61

Naturwissenschaften,
61

neutrons,
32
–34

bombardment of Tubealloy with,
33
,
58
–59

fission and,
61
,
76
,
100

New Deal,
22

Newell, Hattie,
45

New Hope Center,
314

newspapers,
111
–12,
154
–55

censorship of,
290
,
291

New York, N.Y.:

Celia Szapka as Project secretary in,
5
,
9
–11

Project research in,
9
–10

New York Times,
227
,
228
,
244
,
275

Nichols, Jacqueline,
264

Nichols, Kenneth (“the Engineer”),
xv
,
16
–17,
54
,
192
,
264
,
276
,
290
,
296

and decision to use atomic bomb on Japan,
242
–43,
246

Sengier’s meeting with,
18
–19

Tubealloy production contest and,
109
–10

women’s dormitories and,
94

nitric acid,
119

nitrogen, liquid,
119

Nobel Prize,
293
–94

Noddack, Ida,
xiv
,
32
–34,
47
,
59
,
61
,
62
,
80

Noddack, Walter,
34
,
59

Norris Dam,
22
–23,
25
,
142
,
274

Norris Lake,
23

nuclear fission,
61
,
76
,
100
,
260
,
263
,
293
–94

nuclear reaction, first self-sustaining,
76
–78

O

Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
xvi
,
81

author’s visit to,
311
–15

Clinton Engineer Works at,
see
Clinton Engineer Works

Oak Ridge Journal,
xiv
,
20
,
35
,
42
,
52
,
63
,
71
–72,
81
,
89
–90,
109
,
133
,
136
,
156
–58,
165
–66,
176
,
183
,
209
,
232
,
240
,
249
,
269
,
274
–76,
287

Oak Ridge Law,
297

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL),
312

Office of Censorship,
154
,
157
,
237
,
259
–60

Office of Scientific Research and Development,
62

Office of War Information,
143

Okinawa,
227
,
238

O’Leary, Jean,
238

Oppenheimer, J. Robert (“the Scientist”),
xv
,
16
,
174
,
177
–78,
207
–8,
228
,
244
,
259
,
299

atomic bomb test and,
235
–36

Hinduism studied by,
236
,
244

Truman’s meeting with,
291
–92

Operation Epsilon,
228

Operation Meetinghouse,
229

“Our Friend the Atom,”
299

P

Panser, Maybelle,
40

Parker, Lew,
52
,
53
,
54
,
93
,
111
,
280

transfer to CEW,
53

Parsons, Captain,
252

Patterson, Robert R.,
85
,
230
,
271

Pauli, Wolfgang,
293

Pearl Harbor,
56
,
154
,
250
,
253
,
273
,
308

pearling industry,
23

periodic table,
32
–34

Peters, Benjamin,
22

Peters, Toni,
see
Schmitt, Toni Peters

Philadelphia Navy Yard,
172
–73

Physics Today,
294

Pierce Foundation,
83

Piper, Mac,
68

Photographer, the,
see
Westcott, James Edward “Ed”

plutonium,
see
Element
94

Pollock, Bill,
178
–79

“Possible Production of Elements of Atomic Number Higher Than 92” (Fermi),
32

Potsdam Conference,
236
,
238
–39,
243
,
244
,
246

Potsdam Proclamation,
245
,
255

press,
111
–12,
154
–55

protons,
32
,
33

Puckett, Beverly,
314

Puckett, Jane Greer,
xiii
,
1
,
42
–46,
120
–22,
176
–78,
247
,
254
,
260
–61,
271
–72,
298
,
300
–301,
314

acceptance of CEW job,
44
–45

at college,
44
,
95
,
120

Doris and,
45
–46

investigation of, for CEW job,
43

marriage of,
300

training of,
121

work of,
120
–22

Puckett, Jim,
45
–46,
300