Talk:Katharine Way

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A fact from Katharine Way appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that nuclear physicist Katharine Way co-edited a 1946 bestseller which included essays by Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, and sold over 100,000 copies?

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Sources

After doing some research, I have found a few sources on Katharine Way not used in the preparation of this article. I believe these sources can offer additional information that expands upon what the article is already written about, so I would suggest anyone looking to edit the article starts with these sources.

http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Way,_Katharine@862427327.html

Way, K., & Wigner, E. P. (1948). The Rate of Decay of Fission Products. Physical Review,73(11), 1318-1330. doi:10.1103/physrev.73.1318

Teaching Katharine Way at the University of North Carolina[Video file]. (2008). Web of Stories. Retrieved from https://www.webofstories.com/playAll/john.wheeler?sId=9414. Story first recorded in December 1996

A main thing I would look at is elaborating on exactly what her theory was (don't need to get into the physics of it, but just say its importance and what it did) as well as double checking the fact that Wheeler recruited Way. I believe she called him and got herself a spot in the Manhattan Project. Just some places to start at if looking to imporve/edit this article.Atb105 (talk) 15:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

American Philosophical Society

This might be usable:

https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/katharine-way-john-wheeler-and-dawn-nuclear-fission

2601:644:8501:AAF0:0:0:0:9BB0 (talk) 18:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]