Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

Ruth Hege Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg

Temple University Press, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 264 pages

"Authors Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg discuss the various scientific problems the women helped to solve as well as the discrimination they faced in their work. Their abrupt recruitment for the war effort and anecdotes of everyday life in the clandestine, improvised communities, what happened to the women after the war, and their present attitudes toward the work they did on the bomb are also included."--BOOK JACKET.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project; Volume 71 of Labor and social change
• Authors: Ruth Hege Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg
• Contributors: American Council of Learned Societies, Ellen C. Weaver
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Temple University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 1566397197, 9781566397193
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Social Science / Women's Studies; Technology & Engineering / Military Science