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Alice Kimball Smith (1907–2001)

Författare till A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America: 1945-47

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Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) (1805) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor57 exemplar

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Andra namn
Kimball, Alice
Födelsedag
1907-05-08
Avled
2001-02-06
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Dödsort
Ellensburg, Washington, USA
Bostadsorter
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Utbildning
Mount Holyoke College (BA | 1928)
Yale University (PhD | 1936)
Yrken
historian of science
Dean
scholar
editor
Relationer
Smith, Cyril Stanley (husband)
Organisationer
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Phi Beta Kappa
Kort biografi
Alice Kimball Smith was an historian of science and scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, now the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, at Harvard University, a postgraduate study center for woman scholars and artists. She and her husband Cyril Stanley Smith and their two children lived at Los Alamos, New Mexico for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. From 1963 to 1973, she was director of the Radcliffe Seminars. She served as associate dean and then dean of the Radcliffe Institute. She was the author of A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists Movement in America, 1945-1947 (1965). With Charles Weiner, she edited Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections (1980).

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