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Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret
City of Los Alamos. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2005
Conant chronicles the events that occurred at the city of Los Alamos
from interviews, manuscripts, and speeches of Dorothy McKibbin
explaingin her duties as a secretary and gatekeeper of the Los Alamos
project. McKibbins provided insight on women and wives of Los Alamos,
as she was the key person Oppenheimer used to problem solve many
domestic issues among women.
Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A Biography. Translated by Vincent
Sheean. New York: The Literary Guild of America, Inc., 1937.
Within Madam Curie: A Biography, Eve Curie, Marie Curie’s
daughter, gives vivid insight of Marie Curie’s life. Eve Curie
chronicles Marie Curie’s legendary achievements in the pioneering of
radioactivity. The personal relation of the author gives an exceptional
detail of Marie Curie that no other biographer can provide.
Kelly, Cynithia C. The Manhattan Project. New York: Black Dog &
Leventhal Publishers, Inc. 2007
Kelly provides several different sources in an attempt to honor and
remember the figures that were involved with the Manhattan Project.
With little author interpretation of the sources, Kelly does provide a
plethora of sources to engage a reader into further investigation of
different topics such as women involved
Goldsmith, Barbara. Obsessive Genius: The inner world of Marie Curie.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2005.
Obsessive Genius
observes the life of Marie Curie and partly her daughter, Irene Curie.
Goldsmith produces an excellent composition of the Curie papers, showing
the bleak and more tragic side of Marie Curie’s life. Goldsmith is a
great reference on the Curie’s lives and how they work so hard on a
product that eventually claimed their lives.
Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc. 1973.
Hersey’s Hiroshima focuses on the result of the atomic bomb and
how a nuclear bomb changed the world. Hersey focus on the atrocities
gives a reader a slightly bias view on the United States and the use of
the bomb on Japan. Hersey provides a good context of the Atomic bomb
with the views of the people affected and aftermath of the bomb’s impact
on the world.
James, Ioan. Remarkable Physicists. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press: 2004.
In Remarkable Physicists, James chronicles several physicists of
the world ranging from Galileo to Yukawa, including the critical members
in developing the physics of the atomic bomb. Of the members that
contributed to the atomic bomb are the women physicists: Marie Curie,
Lise Meitner, and Maria Goeppert-Mayer. Despite the writing is directed
to a less scholarly population; it is informative and a great biological
index of key physicists.
Shearer, Benjamin F., and Barbara S. Shearer, eds. Notable Women in
the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1997.
Shearer and Shearer catalog several women that have had a significant
impact in physical sciences, including the women scientist that were
involved in the physics that made the atomic bomb possible. The brief
articles dedicated to Marie Curie and Lise Meitner are concise and
provide an introduction to further research.
Sime, Ruth Lewin. Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1996.
Sime, a professor of chemistry at Sacramento City College, produced
Lise Meitner: A life in physics as a direct rebuttal to the omission
of several works of female scientist being dismissed bby historians.
Sime attacks the historiography of many different authors stating that
women suffer a double exclusion, from history and from science. Sime
proactive feminism and admirer of Lise Meitner is excellent inspiration
for her book, and gives explanation why Lise Meitner critical
discoveries may have been excluded from many historians’ works.
Wilson, Jane S. STANDING BY AND MAKING DO: Women of wartime Los
Alamos. Los Alamos: The Los Alamos Historical Society. 1988
Wilson catalogs nine different women’s account while they worked on the
Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. The accounts of each woman’s
testimonies are brief but provide a reader with a firsthand account of
women’s importance in the Manhattan Project and the development of the
atomic bomb.
Yellin, Emily. Our mothers’ war: American Women at Home and at the
Front during World War II. New York: Free Press. 2004
Yellin, compelled to unearth the history women that served American
during World War II, began her research on women that were working to
bring their men home safely, serving in the newly opened branches of the
military for women, and the positions women filled while men were
overseas. Yellin dedicates a chapter to the wives and WACs that worked
in the secret city of Los Alamos. Yellin focuses on the minor home
front issues women fulfilled and how women were necessary support roles
in developing the atomic bomb.
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