Dorothy McKibbin | |
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 Los Alamos badge photo | |
| Born | Dorothy Scarritt December 12, 1897 |
| Died | December 17, 1985 (aged 88) |
| Education | Smith College (BA) |
| Father | William Chick Scarritt |
| Family | Nathan Scarritt (grandfather) William Miles Chick (great-grandfather) |
Dorothy McKibbin (December 12, 1897 – December 17, 1985; née Scarritt) worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She ran the project's office at 109 East Palace Avenue in Santa Fe, through which staff moving to the Los Alamos Laboratory had to pass through to obtain security credentials and directions to their new workplace. She was known as the "first lady of Los Alamos",[1][2] and was often the first point of contact for new arrivals. She retired when the Santa Fe office closed in 1963.
- ^ Howes & Herzenberg 1999, p. 159.
- ^ "The faces that made the Bomb". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Archived from the original on September 3, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2015.