Table of Contents

Foreword Prologue 1. The Great Scientific Adventure 2. The Founding Mothers: Pioneers in Nuclear Science 3. The Physicists 4. The Chemists 5. Mathematicians and Calculators 6. Biologists and Medical Scientists 7. The Technicians 8. Other Women of the Manhattan Project 9. After the War Epilogue Appendix A: Female Scientific and Technical workers in the Manhattan Project Appendix B: Chronology References Index Photographs

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The hidden story of the contribution of women in the effort to develop the atomic bomb

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.

Reviews

"Of the many women who contributed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I remember with pleasure most of the physicists who I knew quite well. It is nice to read about Los Alamos as a success story." --Dr. Edward Teller, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution "I am thrilled to learn of so many of the remarkable women who contributed to innumerable aspects of [this] great enterprise. This book enables us to meet each other, to swap stories. The authors have done a superb job of detective work, tracking down an impressive number of them, more than 300. It is important to record and credit women's contributions to the social and technological history of the making of the bomb." --Ellen C. Weaver, Ph.D., Past President, Association for Women in Science "Quite interesting in what it reveals, both particularly about the chauvinism of the project's male management and the naivete of professional and support staff regarding the harmful effects of nuclear materials. Recommended for academic history of science collections." --Library Journal "Authors Howes and Herzenberg have done a remarkable job in synthesizing archived information on the women of the Manhattan Project and in bringing these women to life on the pages of their book." --AWIS Magazine "Painstakingly researched...this [book] provides a valuable beginning to the study of a previously neglected topic and contributes to our knowledge of the history of women in science." --Science Books and Films