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Theodore B. Novey

Research AssistantOak Ridge, TN

Chicago, IL
Manhattan Project VeteranScientistSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
The Chapel on the Hill

Theodore B. (“Ted”) Novey was a research assistant at the University of Chicago Met Lab and Oak Ridge. His wife Elaine Lewitz Novey also worked for the Manhattan Project as a technician. At Oak Ridge, he signed a petition based on the Szilard Petition.

After the war, Ted received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago. He became a senior physicist in the High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory and was a Guggenheim Fellow to CERN. He later became a psychiatrist.

Theodore B. Novey’s Timeline
1921 Apr 18th Born in Chicago, Illinois.

19421946 Worked as a research assistant on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab and Oak Ridge.

1948 Received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago.

19521953 Named National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow to the Institute of Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

19611962 Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to CERN.

2008 Aug 13th Died in Chicago, Illinois.

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