Abir-Am at the Los Alamos National Library
Pnina Abir-Am
pninga@brandeis.edu
Pnina G. Abir-Am has just returned from a week in Los Alamos, NM where she conducted research under a Tavris travel grant from the WSRC. Research on the history of women who worked on the atomic bomb during WW2 was conducted in the Archives of the Los Alamos Historical Society, its Museum, the Bradbury Museum which is the public outreach part of Los Alamos National Laboratory, (LANL) and in a section of LANL's Library which is open to the public. Pnina was also invited to give 2 public lectures in the Auditorium of the Bradbury Museum, sponsored by the New Mexico Section of the American Chemical Society, and the Chemistry Division of LANL. The lectures interrogated the legacy of Mme Curie's Centennial for women scientists in the present and during WW2. Pnina's paper on this topic has just appeared in a collection of essays edited by Chiu, Gilmer & Tresgast, (September 2011) and is available for download as a pdf.