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RECORD NUMBER: 50 OF 146Main Title | Improbable warriors : women scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II / | |||||||||||
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Author | Williams, Kathleen Broome, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Naval Institute Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2001 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 45908882 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 1557509611; 9781557509611 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Women scientists--United States--Biography ; World War, 1939-1945--Science ; Armed Forces--Women ; Femmes scientifiques--âEtats-Unis--1900-1945 ; Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)--Sciences | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | United States--Navy--Women--Biography ; âEtats-Unis--Navy--Femmes ; United States--Navy ; World War (1939-1945) | |||||||||||
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Collation | xvii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Women at war: an overview -- Mary Sears: oceanographer -- Florence van Straten: meteorologist -- Grace Murray Hopper: computer scientist -- Mina Spiegel Rees: science administrator -- After the war -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |