Women of the Manhattan Project: Nov. 4
Released: November 1, 2005
Professor Ruth Howes, chair of the physics department at Marquette University and one of the leaders of a recent national task force on undergraduate physics, will be visiting the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on Friday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. to present a lecture on the Manhattan Project, the women who played a major role in the project and the science they did. The lecture will be held in Upham Hall room 140.
Howes is a distinguished nuclear physicist, former president of the American Association of Physics Teachers and co-author of the book "Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project."
The lecture is sponsored by the UW-Whitewater Physics department as part of their “World Year of Physics” lecture series, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein's publication of four revolutionary physics papers. Remaining events include a Dec. 2 lecture by Laura Ruetsche of the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh and a Dec. 9 lecture by Alan Wiseman of the physics department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Ruetsche will discuss Einstein's view of quantum theory and Wiseman will provide an update on the search for gravitational waves.
The lectures are free and all are welcome to attend.
For more information, contact Lynn Miller at (262) 472-1067 or millerl@uww.edu.
- Jonathan Kozlowski,kozlowskjd05@uww.edu
