Biography:Rose Mooney-Slater
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| Born | Rose Camille LeDieu October 23, 1902 |
| Died | November 21, 1981 (aged 79) |
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| Fields | X-ray crystallography |
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Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater (23 October 1902 – 21 November 1981) was a professor of physics at the Newcomb College of the Tulane University and the first female X-ray crystallographer in the United States.[1][2]
Life
Rose Camille LeDieu was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.[3][4] Mooney-Slater received a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the Newcomb College of the Tulane University in 1926 and 1929, respectively.[1] In 1932, she received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.[1]
In 1933, she became a professor of physics at the Newcomb College.[1] She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1939.[1] In 1941, she was appointed the head of the physics department at Newcomb College.[1] From 1943 to 1944, she worked as a research physicist and crystallographer on the Manhattan Project in the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago.[1] From 1952 to 1956, she worked as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards.[1] From 1956 to 1981, she served as a research physicist at MIT.[1] From 1966 to 1974, she taught physics at the University of Florida.[1] In 1954 she married fellow physicist John C. Slater.[2][5] Mooney-Slater died on 21 November 1981.[6]
Awards
She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the American Physical Society.[2][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Rose C. Mooney-Slater" (in en). https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/rose-c-mooney-slater.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fronczek, Frank (2017). "Rose C. L. Mooney-Slater". American Crystallographic Association. https://www.amercrystalassn.org/h-mooney-slater_articles.
- ↑ "Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater papers, 1917-1981". American Philosophical Society. https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.SL22-ead.xml.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 910–911. ISBN 9780415920384. https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA910. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Morse, Philip M. (1982). "John Clarke Slater: 1900–1976" (in en-US). Biographical Memoirs. 53. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. pp. 310. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/slater-john.pdf. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
- ↑ Moulton, Grace (1982-07-01). "Rose C. L. Slater" (in en). Physics Today 35 (7): 72. doi:10.1063/1.2915184. ISSN 0031-9228. Bibcode: 1982PhT....35g..72M. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/35/7/72/433912/Rose-C-L-Slater. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
- ↑ "Tulane Prof Honored By Physical Society". The American Progress: pp. 23. 1938-09-30. https://www.newspapers.com/image/843786634.
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