Women and Men of the Manhattan Project

Autor/inn/en	Marshall, Jill; Herzenber, Caroline; Howes, Ruth; Weaver, Ellen; Gans, Dorothy
Titel	Women and Men of the Manhattan Project
Quelle	In: Physics Teacher, 48 (2010) 4, S.228-232 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-921X
DOI	10.1119/1.3361988
Schlagwörter	Weapons; Women Scientists; Laboratories; Males; War; United States History; Nuclear Physics; Science History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weapon; Waffe; Weibliche Gelehrte; Laboratory; Laboratorium; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Krieg; Atomphysik; Kernphysik; History of science; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Abstract	In the early 1990s Ruth Howes, a nuclear physicist on the faculty at Ball State University, and Caroline Herzenberg, a nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, were asked to write a chapter on the Manhattan Project for a volume on women working on weapons development for the military. Realizing that they knew very little about the women who had been involved in that effort, they embarked on a mission to find out more. Howes and Herzenberg were able to document the wartime contributions of more than 1000 women in "Their Day in the Sun," preserving this legacy for generations to come. At the 2009 AAPT Winter Meeting in Chicago, the AAPT Committee on Women in Physics celebrated the accomplishments of these women and the men who worked beside them in a session co-sponsored with the History and Philosophy of Physics and the Concerns of Senior Physicists committees. Howes presented an overview of the contributions of women to the development of the first nuclear weapon, and the session was honored with the presence of Manhattan Project veterans Ellen Cleminshaw Weaver, who worked at Oak Ridge, and Dorothy Marcus Gans, who worked as a technician in the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10