Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Ardis (Thomas) Monk

MathematicianChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker

Ardis (Thomas) Monk was a research assistant and mathematician at the University of Chicago Met Lab, where she performed computations for Eugene Wigner’s theoretical physics group. She was married to the physicist George S. Monk.

Prior to working at the Met Lab, she graduated from the University of Chicago in 1913 and worked as an instructor at Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis, OR.

Related Profiles

Leo James Rainwater

Hanford, WA

Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics.  As a graduate student at Columbia University, Rainwater assisted the Manhattan Project through research in the Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Lab.

Kenneth Wickham

Hanford, WA

George Logan

Los Alamos, NM

W. R. Morgan

Y-12 Plant

W. R. Morgan worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.