Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics.OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics NINA BYERS AND GARY WILLIAMS, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. . Although the greatest barriers against women in higher education and research have been removed, women's historical achievements in the male-dominated field of physics are generally unknown. Byers and Williams, both physicists at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , detail the careers and discoveries of 40 women who made their contributions between 1876 and 1976. Examples include Inge Lehmann, who discovered that Earth has a solid core; Lise Meitner, a codiscoverer of the neutrino neutrino (n  trē`nō) [Ital.,=little neutral (particle)], elementary particle with no electric charge and a very small mass emitted during the decay of certain other particles. ; Mary Lucy Cartwright, who made strides in formulating chaos theory; and the well-known Marie Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists.Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. , who discovered natural radioactivity. The book's essays, written by various academics from physics and chemistry, highlight the women's accomplishments, provide brief biographies, and suggest further readings. Cambridge, 2006, 471 p., b&w photos, hardcover, $35.00. |
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