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| Born | Rose Camille LeDieu October 23, 1902 |
| Died | November 21, 1981 (aged 79) |
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| Fields | X-ray crystallography |
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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]
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. [1] In 1932, she received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. [1]
In 1933, she became a professor of physics at the Newcomb College. [1] She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1939. [1] In 1941, she was appointed the head of the physics department at Newcomb College. [1] 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. [1] From 1952 to 1956, she worked as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards. [1] From 1956 to 1981, she served as a research physicist at MIT. [1] From 1966 to 1974, she taught physics at the University of Florida. [1] In 1954 she married fellow physicist John C. Slater. [2] [5] Mooney-Slater died on 21 November 1981. [6]
She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the American Physical Society. [2] [7]
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