Mary Argo

Mary Langs Argo (; –1984) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Argo was the only female staff member invited to witness the Trinity test.

Education Argo was born Mary Langs around 1919 in Michigan, and was raised in Detroit. Initially moving to Washington to study medicine, Argo became interested in physics and earned her Bachelor's in physics in 1939 at the University of Washington.

In 1946 Argo moved with her husband to Chicago, again following Teller, where Harold worked on his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. The Argos lived on the top floor of Maria Goeppert Mayer's house. During this time, Mary Argo stayed at home while they started a family, eventually having four children.

Death and legacy Argo died in 1984.

A scholarship was established in her honor for female high school seniors from Los Alamos High School who show promise in the sciences or arts. The Mary Langs Argo Memorial Scholarship was administerd by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee from 1986 to 2004. In 2004, after Harold Argo's death, the scholarship's name was changed to the Mary and Harold Argo Memorial Scholarship.