Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Andrew M. Stehney

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Andrew Stehney was a research assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

After the war, Stehney worked at Argonne. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950. In 1980, he conducted a study that showed that cancer rates at the Argonne plant were above normal. 

Related Profiles

Betty Murray

Chicago, IL

Betty Murray was a technician in the Solvent-Extraction Group at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Robert R. Coveyou

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Robert Coveyou worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

Karl W. Roberts

Los Alamos, NM

A. U. Avera

Y-12 Plant

A. U. Avera worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.