Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

Abstract

"Authors Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. 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."--Jacket. The Great Scientific Adventure -- The Founding Mothers: Pioneers in Nuclear Science -- The Physicists -- The Chemists -- Mathematicians and Calculators -- Biologists and Medical Scientists -- The Technicians -- Other Women of the Manhattan Project -- After the War.