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Rose Mooney-Slater
Born	Rose Camille LeDieu (1902-10-23)October 23, 1902
Died	November 21, 1981(1981-11-21) (aged 79)
Alma mater	Newcomb College (B.S., M.S.) University of Chicago (PhD.)
Spouses	Carroll Edgerton Mooney John C. Slater ​ ​(m. 1954; died 1976)​
Scientific career
Fields	X-ray crystallography
Institutions	Newcomb College Metallurgical Laboratory National Bureau of Standards Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Florida

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.

Life

Rose Camille LeDieu was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. 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. Mooney-Slater died on 21 November 1981.

Awards

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

References

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2. ^ Fronczek, Frank (2017). "Rose C. L. Mooney-Slater". ACA History. American Crystallographic Association. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
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4. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 910–911. ISBN 9780415920384. Archived from the original on August 5, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
5. Morse, Philip M. (1982). "John Clarke Slater: 1900–1976" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs (PDF). Vol. 53. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. p. 310. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
6. Moulton, Grace (July 1, 1982). "Rose C. L. Slater". Physics Today. 35 (7): 72. Bibcode:1982PhT....35g..72M. doi:10.1063/1.2915184. ISSN 0031-9228. Archived from the original on August 5, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
7. "Tulane Prof Honored By Physical Society". The American Progress. September 30, 1938. p. 23. Archived from the original on August 5, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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