Article ID: CBB000931869

Invisible Technicians at the Nuclear Research Center Democritus: Gender and Physics in Post-War Greece (2007)

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While anonymity is something that especially characterizes male laboratory technicians of the I7tn and I8tn century, in high energy physics laboratories of the 20tn century young women known as scanning girls took up the role of anonymous assistants and technicians. Their job is internationally recognized as a female task that has nothing to do with science but it is simply routine work, a monotonous, unskilled and highly gendered assignment. This paper focuses on the Greek nuclear research center Democritus during the 1950s and 1960s. It emphasizes the role of scanning girls at the center's group of high energy physics. I argue that the work of those women was crucial and constitutive part of the experiment, much different in comparison to the unappreciative work of scanning giris in the big laboratories of the United States of America.

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Authors & Contributors
Sidorenko, Viktor
Eckart Conze
Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra
Smith, Chris L.
Martin Klimke
Hughes, Russell
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear power stations
Nuclear industry
Women in science
Science and gender
Laboratories
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Soviet Union
France
United States
Russia
Greece
Moscow (Russia)
Institutions
Women's Engineering Society
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