Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II - Hardcover

Williams, Kathleen Broome

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557509611 ISBN 13: 9781557509611

Publisher: Naval Inst Pr, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1557509611
• ISBN 13: 9781557509611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280