Women's History in Michigan Science and Engineering Oral History Project - Recordings - Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay

Abstract

Kate Waggoner interviews Fay Ajzenberg-Selove regarding her experiences as University of Michigan engineering student shortly after World War II. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove graduated in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Physics). She later earned a Master of Science (Physics) in 1949 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) in 1952, both from the University of Wisconsin. She did post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, writing the first of a series of major review papers on the nuclear spectroscopy of the light nuclei. She continued this work and experimental research for thirty-eight years while teaching at Boston University, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania.