American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2014: Denver, Colo.)
Women and the Manhattan Project [sound recording], 2014 March 3.
Audio recording of session B38 of the March 2014 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Denver, Colorado in March 2014. This session was chaired by Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado Boulder. Talks (and speakers) include: "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" (Denise Kiernan); "Women and the Hanford Site" (Michele Gerber); "After the War: Stories of the women who did scientific and technical work on the Manhattan Project" (Ruth Howes); "Preserving the Manhattan Project" (Cynthia Kelly); "Then and Now: Women Respond to the Manhattan Project -- an illustrated talk" (Olivia Fermi). Topics discussed include the Manhattan Project, women scientists, Hanford Engineer Works, Leona Woods Marshall, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Energy, Atomic Heritage Foundation, Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi, Marian Naranjo.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
Fermi, Laura.
Libby, Leona Marshall, 1919-
Atomic Heritage Foundation
Hanford Engineer Works.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
United States. Department of Energy fast
Women in science
Fermi, Olivia
Gerber, Michele Stenehjem, 1948-
Howes, Ruth (Ruth Hege)
Kelly, Cynthia C.
Kiernan, Denise.
Murnane, Margaret
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA