Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Evelyne Litz

Health Physicist & LibrarianOak Ridge, TN

Chicago, ILLos Alamos, NM
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientistSpouse to Manhattan Project WorkerWoman Scientist
Listen to Evelyne Litz’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Evelyne Litz worked in health physics and as a librarian during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and the Chicago Met Lab. She was the second person, after her husband Lawrence Litz, to see metallic plutonium. 

Related Profiles

Leo Brewer

University of California, Berkeley

Leo Brewer (1919-2005) was an American chemist. Brewer finished his undergraduate degree at CalTech in 1940.

L. F. Hardy

T-Plant/200 Areas

Hardy worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

B. E. Arthur

Los Alamos, NM

Robert Donald Keen

Washington, DC

Robert Keen enlisted in the military on December 28, 1944 and began his training for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in January of 1945.