Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

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Temple University Press, 2003 - Social Science - 264 pages
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Contents

The Great Scientific Adventure
6
Pioneers in Nuclear Science
20
The Physicists
38
The Chemists
86
Mathematicians and Calculators
110
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132
Other Women of the Manhattan Project
152
After the
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Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
Ruth Hege Howes,Caroline L. Herzenberg
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About the author (2003)

Ruth H. Howes is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ball State University. She is Vice President of the American Association of Physics Teachers and President Elect of the Indiana Academy of Science. She is also co-editor of The Energy Sourcebook and Women and the Use of Military Force. Caroline L. Herzenberg, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, is past president of the Association for Women in Science. She is author of Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present.

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TitleTheir Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
Labor and social change
AuthorsRuth H. Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherTemple University Press, 2003
ISBN1592131921, 9781592131921
Length264 pages
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Social Science / Women's Studies
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
  
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