Autobiography, ca. 1960.

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Autobiography, ca. 1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84273937

The document covers Laird's early background and education; her fellowship and studies at Bryn Mawr College and the Technische Universität Berlin; assistantship in physics at Mount Holyoke College; radiation work at Cavendish Laboratory; work on charged particle beams, reflections of soft x-rays, and Raman effect; work during World War II for the Canadian National Research Council; appointment to faculty of University of Western Ontario; work for Ontario Cancer Research Foundation on short wave region (radiation) for medical use; outstanding students; fellow contemporary women physicists; and honors. File also includes an appendix of letters from Laird to her sister written in Berlin (1898-1899), and notes on a Berlin colloquium.

20 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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