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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.
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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
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages280
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