Miriam Jolley Spencer ’44

Miriam Jolley Spencer ’44, of Harrisville, R.I.; Oct. 20. After graduating with a chemistry degree, she went to work with Union Carbide in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She worked on the Manhattan Project and aided in the development of the atomic bomb as one of the girls of the atomic city. She continued her education at Wellesley College and traveled extensively before returning to Harrisville, where she married and began a family. She was active in her church and a member of the American Chemical Society, the former American Society for X-Ray and Electron Diffraction, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She enjoyed researching family history and is survived by two daughters, a son, a daughter-in-law, two sons-in-law, six grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters.