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Katharine Way | |
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| Born | February 20, 1902 |
| Died | December 9, 1995 (aged 93) |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | Columbia University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Known for | Nuclear Data Project |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Tennessee Manhattan Project National Bureau of Standards Oak Ridge National Laboratory Duke University |
| Thesis | Photoelectric Cross Section of the Deuteron (1938[1]) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Wheeler |
Katharine "Kay" Way (February 20, 1902 – December 9, 1995)[2][3] was an American physicist best known for her work on the Nuclear Data Project. During World War II, she worked for the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago. She became an adjunct professor at Duke University in 1968.
- ^ "Photoelectric cross section of the deuteron". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
- ^ Ware & Braukman 2004, pp. 670–671.
- ^ Physics Today gives her year of birth as 1903 and her date of death as December 8.