women of the Manhattan project
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Howes, Ruth H.
- Creator
- Herzenberg, Caroline C.
- Creator
- Weaver, Ellen C. > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2003
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, wetenschappelijke beroepen, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Because of manpower shortages during World War II, female physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists, and lab technicians participated in all aspects of the Manhattan Project, America's extremely secretive effort during the war to develop the atomic bomb. Howes and 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.