Table of Contents

• The Setting for Women in Physics After World War II
• Women Physicists Working in the National Laboratories
• Women Physicists in Research Universities
• Women Physicists in Industry
• Women Physicists in the Women's Colleges
• Women in Astrophysics and Early NASA Space Science
• Other Women Physicists
• Epilogue: Some Final Thoughts

About the Author

Ruth Howes is Professor Emerita of Physics and Astronomy at Ball State University. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico after retiring as chair of the Physics Department at Marquette University in 2008. She is a nuclear physicist who has a primary interest in improving undergraduate education in physics. She is the co-author of Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project and has an on-going interest in the history of women physicists.