Caroline Herzenberg
Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (born March 25, 1932 in East Orange , New Jersey ) is an American physicist .
Life
Caroline Herzenberg grew up in the US state of Oklahoma and studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after attending school . In 1953 she obtained a bachelor's degree there. She then went to the University of Chicago , where she received her doctorate in 1958 with an experimental nuclear physics work supervised by Samuel K. Allison . From 1959 to 1961 she worked at the Argonne National Laboratory and then until 1971 at the Illinois Institute of Technology . From 1971 to 1974 she was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Medical Center. She then lectured at the California Institute of Technology in Fresno from 1975 to 1976 . From 1977 she worked again at the Argonne National Laboratory and worked there until her retirement in 2001.
She worked in the field of Mössbauer spectrometry and especially on its application in the analysis of lunar rocks as part of the Apollo program as well as on nuclear reactions at low energies and the development of nuclear physics measurement technology. She also published essays on arms control and technology assessment .
She is particularly interested in the role of women in science, especially in physics in the 20th century. She has published numerous articles on this topic and is co-author of two monographs.
In 1989 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1990 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . From 1988 to 1990 she was chair of the Association for Women in Science .
Publications (books)
- Ruth H. Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg: Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1999, ISBN 1-56639-719-7 (American English).
- Ruth H. Howes, Caroline L. Herzenberg: After the War: Women in Physics in the United States . Morgan & Claypool Publ., San Rafael, CA 2015, ISBN 978-1-68174-030-0 (American English).
literature
- Oral History Project Interview: Dr. Caroline Herzenberg , interviewed by Tina Garrett, May 9, 1992, MIT Libraries, Institute Archives and Special Collections (PDF file)
Web links
- Caroline Herzenberg at Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, University of California (UCLA)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzberg, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herzenberg, Caroline Stuart Littlejohn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Orange |