Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Valda B. Lemke

Laboratory Technician; Chemistry DivisionChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Valda B. Lemke was a laboratory assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. She worked with a number of other women technicians, such as Addie Saunders, Nellie Jennings, Eleese Bowman, Julia Elaine Freeman, Evelyn J. Brown, and Marilyn Jordan.

Related Profiles

Louis C. Weihe

Los Alamos, NM

John E. Bonds

Tinian Island

John E. Bonds served in the 390th Air Service Group. After the war, Bonds was assigned to the Japan Atomic Bomb Damage Survey teams.

Alfred Pfanstiehl

Chicago, IL

Alfred Pfanstiehl was a junior physicist at the Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project. Pfanstiehl was a signatory of the Szilard Petition, an attempt to avert military use of the atomic bomb against Japan.

L.S. Randall

Research & Development/300 Area

Randall worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.