Format:
124 Seiten in getrennter Zählung
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
ISBN:
9781681740300
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1681740303
Series Statement:
IOP concise physics
Content:
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
Content:
Preface -- 1. Introduction. The setting for women in physics after World War II -- 2. Women physicists in the national laboratories -- 3. Women physicists in research universities -- 4. Women physicists in industry -- 5. Women physicists in the women's colleges -- 6. Women in astrophysics and early NASA space science -- 7. Other women physicists -- 8. Epilogue: some final thoughts
Note:
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso
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"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Howes, Ruth H. After the war: women in physics in the United States San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2015 ISBN 9781681740942
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781681742229
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Physikerin
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Geschlechterforschung
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