Their Day In The Sun - Women Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback, 1 New Ed)

The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is yet an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists. However, the Manhattan Project was not just the work of a few and it was not just in Los Alamos. It was, in fact, a sprawling research and industrial enterprise that spanned the country from Hanford in Washington State to Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and the Met labs in Illinois. The Manhattan Project also included women in every capacity. During World War II the manpower shortages opened the laboratory doors to women and they embraced the opportunity to demonstrate that they, too, could do \u0022creative science.\u0022 Although women participated in all aspects of the Manhattan Project, their contributions are either omitted or only mentioned briefly in most histories of the project. It is this hidden story that is presented in Their Day in the Sun through interviews, written records, and photographs of the women who were physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists, and technicians in the labs. Authors Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg have uncovered accounts of the scientific problems the women helped solve as well as the opportunities and discrimination they faced. Their Day in the Sun describes their abrupt recruitment for the war effort and includes anecdotes about everyday life in these clandestine improvised communities. A chapter about what happened to the women after the war and about their attitudes now, so many years later, toward the work they did on the bomb is included.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Labor And Social Change
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	April 2003
Authors:	Ruth H. Howes
Contributors:	Caroline Herzenberg
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	264
Edition:	1 New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-59213-192-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Atomic & molecular physics Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > Nuclear weapons Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59213-192-1
Barcode:	9781592131921

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