The creators of the LostWomenofSci highlight some of the hidden figures of the Manhattan Project, including mathematician and punch card expert Naomi Livesay and explosives technician Frances Dunne (via washingtonpost).
Naomi Livesay was told: ‘No place’ for women in higher math
Floy Agnes Lee, a biologist, was assigned to draw and analyze the blood of the scientists working with radioactive materials. After the war, she stayed on at Los Alamos and drew the blood of Louis Slotin, a 35-year-old physicist who died of radiation poisoning after an experiment with plutonium went horribly wrong.Her experiences led her to spend much of her subsequent career studying the effects of radiation on living cells. She returned to Los Alamos in the 1970s to continue that research.
“Oppenheimer” tells a compelling story and certainly covers a lot of scientific ground. For the current generation of budding female scientists, it’s important to learn that women also played significant roles in that momentous endeavor.
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