found: Wikipedia, April 29, 2020(Alice Kimball Smith; Alice Kimball Smith (1907-2001) was an American historian, author and teacher, particularly known from her writing from personal experience on the Manhattan Project; Alice Kimball was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1907; she attended Mount Holyoke College, where she obtained her A.B in 1928; she received her Ph. D from Yale University eight years later; she was married to British metallurgist Cyril Smith; in 1943 she and her husband moved to Los Alamos when her husband joined the Manhattan Project; she got a teaching job in Los Alamos where she and her husband became friends with J. Robert Oppenheimer and his wife Kitty; she used her experiences around Los Alamos as material in her future books; she interviewed many Los Alamos scientists who gave blank answers about the nature of the weapon that they were creating; she and her husband moved to Chicago after World War II ended; she was the assistant editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for many years.; she was also a lecturer at Roosevelt College, and a dean, assistant dean, and scholar at Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study; Smith was a guest columnist for the New York Times in 1983; she was the author of A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945-1947, and co-edited (with Charles Weiner) Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections, a collection of letters from J. Robert Oppenheimer between 1922 and 1945; she died on February 6, 2001 at her home in Ellensburg, Washington)