Dorothy McKibbin

Dorothy McKibbin

Manhattan Project project manager (1897–1985)

📍 Kansas City, Missouri USA

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Dorothy McKibbin 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", and was often the first point of contact for new arrivals. She retired when the Santa Fe office closed in 1963.

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