Theodore B. (“Ted”) Novey was a research assistant at the University of Chicago Met Lab and Oak Ridge. His wife Elaine Lewitz Novey also worked for the Manhattan Project as a technician. At Oak Ridge, he signed a petition based on the Szilard Petition.
After the war, Ted received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago. He became a senior physicist in the High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory and was a Guggenheim Fellow to CERN. He later became a psychiatrist.