 Hoylande <unk> Young <unk> ( June 26 , 1903 – January 12 , 1986 ) was an American chemist . During World War II she worked at the Manhattan Project 's Metallurgical Laboratory . After the war she became the first woman to be appointed as a division head at the Argonne National Laboratory , and the first female to chair the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society . 
