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A Matter of Choices Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

A Matter of Choices By Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

A Matter of Choices by Fay Ajzenberg-Selove


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A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist by Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

When Fay Ajzenberg-Selove became a nuclear physicist, the number of women in the field could be counted on one hand. In this engaging memoir, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove writes candidly about her difficult journey to international recognition in physics. She is frank about the ways being a woman has made a difference in her opportunities and choices as a scientist--and how, by being a woman, she has made a difference in the world of physics. Ajzenberg-Selove came to America at the age of 15 after narrowly escaping the Nazi takeover of France. She had planned to become an engineer like her father, but switched to physics after she was told the only engineering jobs open to women were in drafting: Marie Curie's example proved to her that women could do physics. Her first attempt at graduate work at Columbia University was a disaster, but she was sturck with the intellectual beauty of the field. After taking a Ph.D. in physics at University of Wisconsin, she did post-doctoral work with Thomas Lauritsen at the California Institute of Technology, where she began writing the first of a series of major review papers on the nuclear spectroscopy of the light nuclei, a subject of fundamental importance to nuclear physics, astrophysics, and applied physics. She continued this work and experimental research for thirty-eight years while teaching at Boston University, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania. During her early career, Ajzenberg-Selove was shielded by her male mentors from experiencing much of the discrimination directed against women in science. Her simultaneous battles to become a tenured professor and to overcome breast cancer opened her eyes and confirmed her as a feminist. The lay reader and the scientist alike will be fascinated by Ajzenberg-Selove's clear portrayal of her interlinked lives as physicist, teacher, wife of particle physicist, Walter Selove, and a woman who relishes both competition and friendship in a male-dominated field. An invaluable book for anyone contemplating a career in science.

About Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove is Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1991. She is the author of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Energy Levels of Nuclei, and has long been active in encouraging women to enter and remain in physics. Ann Hibner Koblitz, the series editor, has won the History of Science Society's prize for outstanding work on the history of women in science. She is the author of A Convergence of Lives--Sofia Kowalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Rutgers University Press).

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CIN0813520355G
9780813520353
0813520355
A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist by Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Used - Good
Paperback
Rutgers University Press
1994-12-31
234
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