Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II - Hardcover
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Profiles the remarkable naval career of four American women scientists in World War II--Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Hopper, and Mina Rees--and discusses their contribution to naval science in the area of computers, the use of weather in combat, oceanography, and applied mathematics.
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Winner of the 2001 North American Society for Oceanic History, John Lyman Book Award in the category of U.S. Navy History.
About the Author
Kathleen Broome Williams teaches at Bronx Community College and the CUNY graduate center. She is the author of Secret Weapon: U.S. High Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic. She lives in Bronxville, New York.
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- PublisherNaval Inst Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1557509611
- ISBN 13 9781557509611
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages280
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