Rose C. Mooney-Slater (1902-1981) was a physicist and crystallographer at the University of Chicago Met Lab.
At the Chicago Met Lab, she helped establish an X-ray crystallographic laboratory and was named associate chief of the X-ray Structure Section. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939, Mooney-Slater had a distinguished career as a physicist and professor at Newcomb College, MIT, the University of Florida, and the National Bureau of Standards.
Rose C. Mooney-Slater’s Timeline
1902 Oct 23rd Born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1926 Received a B.S. in Physics from Newcomb College, Tulane University.
1929 Received an M.S. in Physics from Newcomb College.
1932 Received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago.
1933 Became Professor of Physics at Newcomb College.
1939 Named a Guggenheim Fellow.
1941 Named head of the Physics Department at Newcomb College.
19431944 Worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Lab as a research physicist and crystallographer.
19521956 Worked as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards.
19561981 Served as a research physicist at MIT.
19661974 Taught physics at the University of Florida.
