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
You wouldn’t know it from the blockbuster film, but many women were involved in the Manhattan Project during World War II. There were 640 women working at Los Alamos and nearly half were scientists mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists and computational analysts.
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Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she is rarely mentioned as more than a footnote—until now