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After the war: women in physics in the United States / Ruth H Howes (Professor Emerita of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University), Caroline L Herzenberg (Scientist (retired), Argonne National Laboratory)

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: IOP concise physicsPublisher: San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]Publisher: Bristol, UK : IOP Publishing, [2015]Edition: Version: 20151201Description: 1 Online-Ressource (124 Seiten in getrennter Zählung) : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 9781681740942
  • 9781681742229
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781681740300. | Erscheint auch als: 9781681740300 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 530.092
  • 530.097309045
  • 530.092 530.097309045
  • 530.0922 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1088/978-1-6817-4094-2Online resources: Summary: This book examines the lives and contributions of American women physicists who were active in the years following World War II, during the middle decades of the 20th century. It covers the strategies they used to survive and thrive in a time where their gender was against them. The percentage of woman taking PhDs in physics has risen from 6% in 1983 to 20% in 2012 (an all-time high for women). By understanding the history of women in physics, these gains can continue. It discusses two major classes of women physicists; those who worked on military projects, and those who worked in industrial laboratories and at universities largely in the late 1940s and 1950s. While it includes minimal discussion of physics and physicists in the 1960s and later, this book focuses on the challenges and successes of women physicists in the years immediately following World War II and before the eras of affirmative actions and the use of the personal computer.PPN: PPN: 845350846Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-IOP | ZDB-135-ICP | ZDB-135-IAL
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