Template:Did you know nominations/Katharine Way
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The result was: promoted by PumpkinSky talk 19:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC).
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Katharine Way
[edit]- ... 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?
5x expanded by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self nominated at 12:25, 20 April 2013 (UTC).
Article has been expanded 5x, has inline citations throughout. Principal sources are offline, and there are some contradictions between the article and the one online source I could check: (1) article gives her dates of birth and death as (February 20, 1902 – December 9, 1995); online source gives them as 20 February 1903 and 8 December 1995; (2) article says she became interested in physics at graduate level; online source says her BS degree was in physics. There's also a problem with the hook as the source doesn't mention her as a co-editor. NinaGreen (talk) 00:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- Added an extra source. I've made a copy of my offline source available for you here. I favoured it over the Physics Today article because (a) it says where it sourced its info from (b) it was aware of the Physics Today article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I've added an inline citation to an online source for the hook which specifically mentions Way as co-editor, and have also added a note explaining the disagreement between RS as to her year of birth and date of death because readers who can only see the dates in the Physics Today article would be confused by the apparent discrepancy between that source and the dates given in the article. I also made a change indicating that Wheeler, at the graduate level, stimulated Way's interest in nuclear physics, rather than merely physics, as the Physics Today article says she already had a degree in physics. If you're OK with those changes, the article is good to go, and is a nice addition to articles on women who have had careers in this area. NinaGreen (talk) 18:28, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- Added an extra source. I've made a copy of my offline source available for you here. I favoured it over the Physics Today article because (a) it says where it sourced its info from (b) it was aware of the Physics Today article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
