A singularly unfeminine profession : one woman's journey in physics / Mary K. Gaillard.

"In 1981 Mary K Gaillard became the first woman on the physics faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. Her career as a theoretical physicist spanned the period from the inception -- in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics and i...

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Main Author: Gaillard, Mary K. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2015.
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Physical Description:xii, 187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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