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Their Day In The Sun - Women Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Their Day In The Sun - Women Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
Series: Labor And Social Change
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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.
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