Carolyn Beatrice Parker’s Work on the Manhattan Project Inspired Her Birthplace Generations Later
This Black physicist’s work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death
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Carolyn Beatrice Parker’s Work on the Manhattan Project Inspired Her Birthplace Generations Later
This Black physicist’s work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death
Forgotten Electrical Engineer's Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate that allowed objects to be detected at a distance
This Filipina Physicist Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon
Emma Unson Rotor worked on the proximity fuze, a groundbreaking piece of World War II weapons technology that the U.S. War Department called “second only to the atomic bomb.”
This Virus Hunter Hunter Fought a Pandemic Using a Garage Full of Guinea Pigs
It's a global pandemic. The year is not 2020 but 1918, and Harriet Jane Lawrence is developing a vaccine against the deadliest influenza outbreak the world has ever seen
Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create
After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear physicist Katharine Way persuaded the world’s greatest physicists to contribute essays to a book opposing nuclear weapons
What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project
Hundreds of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were women. They were physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians. Today we bring you the story of one of them.