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.

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