How it came about, ca. 1963.

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How it came about, ca. 1963.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84507338

How it came about is a memoir of Rona's work and collaborations with great scientists in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and about the atmosphere and the situation under which scientific work, including her Ph.D. from Budapesti Müszaki Egyetem in physical chemistry in early 1900, was done. Most detailed are her accounts of George von Hevesy in Hungary; Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin; Stefan Meyer, and his Vienna Radium Institute; Marie and Irene Curie, and the Joliot-Curies in Paris; and Hans Pettersson and his laboratory at Bornö, Sweden. Rona also describes her work with Fritz F. Koczy at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami from the late 1950s; her immigration to the United States in 1941; and her World War II work with Brian O'Bryen and the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Her relationship with Ellen Gleditch is mentioned at some length.

79 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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