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

Mary T. Burke

Chicago, IL

Mary T. Burke was a research assistant in the Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) at the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

Joseph Katz

Chicago, IL

Dr. Joseph Katz was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago. Katz was a part of a team that studied ways to make the diffusion of U-235 to U-238.

Leona Marshall Libby

Chicago, IL

Leona Woods, later Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Marshall Libby, was perhaps the most well-known woman scientist working on the Manhattan Project.

Valda B. Lemke

Chicago, IL

Valda B. Lemke was a laboratory assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.