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Evelyne Litz

Health Physicist & LibrarianOak Ridge, TN

Chicago, ILLos Alamos, NM
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientistSpouse to Manhattan Project WorkerWoman Scientist
Listen to Evelyne Litz’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Evelyne Litz worked in health physics and as a librarian during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and the Chicago Met Lab. She was the second person, after her husband Lawrence Litz, to see metallic plutonium. 

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