Book ID: CBB000100144

Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II (2001)

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Williams, Kathleen Broome (Author)


Naval Institute Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xvii + 304 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index
Language: English

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Review Honey, Maureen (2002) Review of "Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II". American Historical Review (p. 1246). unapi

Review Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich (2002) Review of "Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Weir, Gary E.
Grunden, Walter E.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Jack, Jordynn Marguerite
Kiernan, Denise
Korsmo, Fae L.
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Air Power History
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences
Publishers
Texas A&M University
Naval Institute Press
Simon & Schuster
Springer International
University of Illinois Press
Montana State University
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
World War II
Science and government
Oceanography
Earth sciences
Women in science
People
Bush, Vannevar
Iselin, Columbus O'Donnell
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Revelle, Roger
Sears, Mary
Jansen, Marin Henri
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Europe
Japan
Atlantic Ocean
Great Britain
China
Institutions
United States Navy
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Société de Statistique de Paris
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