The 'house that dick built': Constructing the team that built the bomb

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 943-957

  Rall, Denise N ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gender and computers; Manhattan project; Richard Feynman; Scientists' wives; Volunteer cultures; Volunteers in computing projects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750724742     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706062676     Document Type: Article

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