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| Title | Mary Singleton Oral History |
| Subject |
Women in chemistry--Archives Women chemists--Biography Women in science Women scientists Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Singleton, Mary (b. 1936) |
| Interviewee | Singleton, Mary (b. 1936) |
| Description--Biography | Mary Singleton (b. 1936) received her B.S. (1958) in Chemistry from Wheaton College and her M.S. (1960) in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1960-1962 she worked with Melvin Calvin, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961, at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962 she left Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and for the next twelve years she raised her children and moved to Europe, Wisconsin and California as her husband's job required. Singleton began working again (1974-1998) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, where she worked for twenty-two years. Most of her career was in research, including tritium-getter materials, oil shale processing, and growth of nonlinear optical crystals for the LLNL laser project. In 1998 Singleton was among five other female employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who filed a lawsuit against the Lab on December 23, 1998. She negotiated a separate agreement after her retirement. |
| Date | 2002 |
| Location of Interview | Berkeley, CA |
| Interviewer | Zanish-Belcher, Tanya |
| Collection | Archives of Women in Science and Engineering; http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html |
| Collection Description | The Archives of Women in Science and Engineering ongoing Oral History Projects documents the experiences of American women in science and engineering. Historically, women have been denied the opportunity to pursue their career goals in science and engineering, although many women still managed to contribute. Oral history provides a view of female subcultures which have traditionally been created where women were not allowed to fully participate. The history of science is one of the primary historical events of the twentieth century, and these oral history interviews illustrate the integral role that women have played in its development. |
| Location | Iowa State University Library Special Collections: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html |
| Call Number | MS-650 |
| Format-Extent |
Audio 1:27:14 PDF transcript |
| Identifier | 650.Singleton |
| Rights | U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. |
| Type [DCMIType] | Sound; Text |
| Type [IMT] | mp3, pdf |
| Recording Device | Marantz 650 |
Description
| Title | Mary Singleton Oral Oral History |
| Subject |
Women in chemistry--Archives Women chemists--Biography Women in science Women scientists Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. |
| Interviewee | Singleton, Mary (b. 1936) |
| Description--Biography | Mary Singleton (b. 1936) received her B.S. (1958) in Chemistry from Wheaton College and her M.S. (1960) in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1960-1962 she worked with Melvin Calvin, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961, at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962 she left Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and for the next twelve years she raised her children and moved to Europe, Wisconsin and California as her husband's job required. Singleton began working again (1974-1998) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, where she worked for twenty-two years. Most of her career was in research, including tritium-getter materials, oil shale processing, and growth of nonlinear optical crystals for the LLNL laser project. In 1998 Singleton was among five other female employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who filed a lawsuit against the Lab on December 23, 1998. She negotiated a separate agreement after her retirement. |
| Date | 2002 |
| Location of Interview | Berkeley, CA |
| Interviewer | Zanish-Belcher, Tanya |
| Collection | Archives of Women in Science and Engineering; http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html |
| Collection Description | The Archives of Women in Science and Engineering ongoing Oral History Projects documents the experiences of American women in science and engineering. Historically, women have been denied the opportunity to pursue their career goals in science and engineering, although many women still managed to contribute. Oral history provides a view of female subcultures which have traditionally been created where women were not allowed to fully participate. The history of science is one of the primary historical events of the twentieth century, and these oral history interviews illustrate the integral role that women have played in its development. |
| Location | Iowa State University Library Special Collections: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html |
| Call Number | MS-650 |
| Format-Extent | Audio 1:27:14 |
| Identifier | 650.Singleton.mp3 |
| Rights | U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. |
| Type [IMT] | mp3 |
| Recording Device | Marantz 650 |
| File Size | 104686269 Bytes |
| Format-Type | Audio |