Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Webinar: Women Pioneers of the Nuclear Age
The INMM student chapter is hosting a webinar watch party in the Talbot 220 student lounge January 25h from 12-1:30PM. The webinar covers women pioneers of the nuclear age. Students (and faculty) are welcome to join for the whole presentation or just a part of it.
Normally, when we write about the Manhattan Project -- the secret government program that built the atomic bomb -- we talk about the men that spearheaded it: Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves. But from the discovery of the nuclear fission to the dropping of the bomb, women played many critical and often overlooked roles. This webinar will highlight the achievements of these women. Some of these women you might already know while others you might be hearing their names for the first time. Women included are Lise Meitner, Cecelia Larsen, Klara von Neumann, and Dr. Liane Russel, as well as women from Hanford and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.