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Naomi Livesay | |
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Born | 1916 Montana, U.S. |
Died | (aged 84) Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Children | 2 |
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Naomi Livesay French (1916–2001) was an American mathematician who took part in the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.
Biography
[edit]Livesay was born in Montana and attended Cornell College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She then studied at the University of Wisconsin where she intended to get a doctorate, however she was told that women had no place in mathematics.
Livesay died in 2001 at the age of 84.[1][2]
She recruited Eleanor Ewing.[3] Supervising 12 to 14 men operating 17 IBM calculating machines.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Anthony French, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 96". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ Hafner, Katie (2023-08-03). "Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work". Lost Women of Science (Podcast). Scientific American.
- ^ a b c Faddoul, John (1977-07-27). "Pontiac woman who helped develop A-bomb". The Daily Leader. p. 1.
- ^ "The Wikipedia Library". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ Fisher, Peter H.; Holbrow, Charles H. (2017-06-01). "Anthony Philip French". Physics Today. 70 (6): 74–75. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3604. ISSN 0031-9228. Archived from the original on August 8, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ Howes, Ruth H.; Herzenberg, Caroline L. (1999). Their Day In the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-585-38881-6 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Miller, Sandi (2017-04-18). "Anthony French, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 96". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Lewis, N. (2021-12-03). "Trinity by the Numbers: The Computing Effort that Made Trinity Possible". Nuclear Technology. 207 (sup1): S176–S189. doi:10.1080/00295450.2021.1938487. ISSN 0029-5450.
- ^ Women and the use of military force. Internet Archive. Boulder : L. Rienner Publishers. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55587-329-5.
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