Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Elaine (Lewitz) Novey

Laboratory TechnicianChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker

Elaine (Lewitz) Novey was a laboratory assistant and technician in the Chemistry Division at the University of Chicago Met Lab and Oak Ridge.

Prior to working on the Manhattan Project, she studied at the University of Chicago, Central Y.M.C.A. college and the Chicago Conservatory of Music. She was married to physicist Theodore B. Novey.

Related Profiles

Raymond Sheline

Columbia University

Raymond Sheline was a chemist at Columbia University and a member of the Special Engineer Detachment at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos.

James M. Poindexter

T-Plant/200 Areas

Poindexter worked in the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.  

G. W. Candler

Oak Ridge, TN

G. W. Candler worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Kennette Benedict

Chicago, IL

Kennette Benedict is an American political scientist. She is currently a senior advisor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is a lecturer at the University of Chicago.