After the War: US Women in Physics

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 PhD's in physics has risen for 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 to 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.

Author: Ruth H. Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Published: 12/01/2015
Pages: 124
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.26d
ISBN13: 9781681740300
ISBN10: 1681740303
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | General