Rose Mooney-Slater Explained

Rose Mooney-Slater
Birth Name:Rose Camille LeDieu
Birth Date:23 October 1902
Fields:X-ray crystallography

Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater (23 October 1902 – 21 November 1981) was a professor of physics at the Newcomb College of the Tulane University and the first female X-ray crystallographer in the United States.[1] [2]

Life

Rose Camille LeDieu was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.[3] [4] Mooney-Slater received a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the Newcomb College of the Tulane University in 1926 and 1929, respectively. In 1932, she received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.

In 1933, she became a professor of physics at the Newcomb College. She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1939. In 1941, she was appointed the head of the physics department at Newcomb College. From 1943 to 1944, she worked as a research physicist and crystallographer on the Manhattan Project in the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago. From 1952 to 1956, she worked as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards. From 1956 to 1981, she served as a research physicist at MIT. From 1966 to 1974, she taught physics at the University of Florida. In 1954 she married fellow physicist John C. Slater.[5] Mooney-Slater died on 21 November 1981.[6]

Awards

She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the American Physical Society.[7]

References

  1. Web site: Rose C. Mooney-Slater . 2019-04-26 . . en . April 25, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190425171927/https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/rose-c-mooney-slater . live .
  2. Web site: Fronczek . Frank . 2017 . Rose C. L. Mooney-Slater . 2019-04-26 . ACA History . . April 26, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190426202648/https://www.amercrystalassn.org/h-mooney-slater_articles . live .
  3. Web site: Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater papers, 1917-1981 . American Philosophical Society Library . . May 5, 2019 . January 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220121204334/https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.SL22-ead.xml . live .
  4. Book: Ogilvie . Marilyn Bailey . Harvey . Joy Dorothy . Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie . Joy Harvey . The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . 2000 . Taylor & Francis . 9780415920384 . 910–911 . May 5, 2019 . August 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230805210034/https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA910 . live .
  5. Book: Morse, Philip M. . Biographical Memoirs . . 1982 . 53 . Washington, D.C. . 310 . en-US . John Clarke Slater: 1900–1976 . Philip M. Morse . http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/slater-john.pdf . August 5, 2023 . December 13, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141213042953/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/slater-john.pdf . live .
  6. Moulton . Grace . 1982-07-01 . Rose C. L. Slater . . en . 35 . 7 . 72 . 10.1063/1.2915184 . 1982PhT....35g..72M . 0031-9228 . August 5, 2023 . August 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230805210030/https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/35/7/72/433912/Rose-C-L-Slater . live .
  7. News: 1938-09-30 . Tulane Prof Honored By Physical Society . 23 . . . August 5, 2023 . August 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230805210056/https://www.newspapers.com/image/843786634 . live .

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