Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

by Ruth H. Howes

Book Overview

The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is yet an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists. However, the Manhattan Project was not just the work of a few and it was not just in Los Alamos. It was, in fact, a sprawling research and industrial enterprise that spanned the country from Hanford in Washington State to Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and the Met labs in Illinois. The Manhattan Project also included women in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592131921
• ISBN13: 9781592131921
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"