Natalie Mangini Became Westinghouse Scientist

The first woman hired as a scientist at Westinghouse's Bettis Atomic Power Division was radiochemist Natalie Carbone Mangini in 1951. Her interviewers had mistakenly assumed from her resume that she was a man, but they proceeded with the interview and offered her an analytical chemistry position. Mangini declined because she wanted the radiochemistry opening, which Westinghouse gave her two days later. She subsequently helped develop the Shippingport Atomic Power Station reactor, the first full-scale U.S. atomic reactor to supply civilian electricity, and the reactor aboard USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.

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