Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Abe Krash

AttorneyChicago, IL

Expert
Abe Krash

Abe Krash is an American attorney. He was the editor of The Chicago Maroon, the student newspaper, at the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project. He ran afoul of Manhattan Project security regulations after the Maroon published an article about physicist and Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory director Arthur Compton. He has worked for many years as an attorney with the firm Arnold and Porter.

Related Profiles

Max Friedman

University of California, Berkeley

Max Friedman was an American physicist. One of J. Robert Oppenheimer‘s bright young pupils at the University of California, Berkeley during the 1930s, Friedman’s career as a physicist was derailed by his leftist politics.

Philip C. Leahy

Grand Junction, CO

Philip C. Leahy was a Major in the United States Army. During World War II, he was placed in charge of establishing a domestic uranium procurement program for the Manhattan Project.

Louis Slotin

Los Alamos, NM

Louis Slotin (1910-1946) was a Canadian physicist. Shortly after World War II, he died from radiation sickness contracted during a dangerous experiment conducted at Los Alamos.

Albert Cahn Jr.

Chicago, IL

Albert Cahn, Jr. (1910-1978) was a junior physicist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.