FLORIDA'S PHYSICIST CAROLYN BEATRICE PARKER & THE WWII MANHATTAN PROJECT

OBHS SPEAKER SERIES: Peggy Macdonald, Ph.D., adjunct professor at Stetson University & Indian River State College, will discuss one of Florida's own "hidden figures," a product of Florida's segregated education system, who excelled and earned a master's degree in physics with the Dayton Project, a division of the Manhattan Project, Parker's team worked with the highly radioactive material Polonium (Po-210), which was used as the initiator for early atomic bombs.