What major scientific project did she work on during World War II?
The Manhattan Project
The Enigma Code Breakers
The Hiroshima Project
The Atomic Bomb Project
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The Manhattan Project, the top-secret endeavor to develop the world's first atomic bombs, enlisted her expertise as a physicist. At Los Alamos, New Mexico, she worked tirelessly alongside renowned scientists like Robert Oppenheimer, contributing her knowledge to Theoretical calculations that laid the foundation for this groundbreaking technology.
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