Book ID: CBB000111847

The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation (1999)

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Greene, Gayle (Author)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 1999
Edition Details: Foreword by Helen Caldicott
Physical Details: xii + 321 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

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Review Maria Rentetzi (2019) Review of "The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 176-178). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Evans, Rhodri
Whitlock, Catherine
Michael H. Goldhaber
Quinn, Jim
Wolfschmidt, Gudrun
Williams, Gary A.
Concepts
Physics
Electromagnetic waves; radiation
Women in science
Biographies
Quantum mechanics
Radio
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Cambridge (England)
Europe
Czech Republic
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
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