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Fanny Hesse
This photograph of the Calutron technicians is one of the most famous photographs from Oak Ridge and Gladys Owens is the technician closest to the camera.
Jacob Cross
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
Neil Papworth
Clarence M. Dally
William Coates
Michael Faraday, 1841-1842 (Thomas Phillips)
Here Gladys is shown seated as she was 59 years ago. Although this is not the control panel she would have worked at, her’s was decommissioned many year ago, the controls are identical to what she would have used in 1945.
Memorial portrait of Robert Hooke at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, his birthplace, 2012 (Rita Greer)

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