| LC control no. | n 2002114025 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hornig, Lilli S. |
| Birth date | 1921-03-22 |
| Death date | 2017-11-17 |
| Place of birth | Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | Providence (R.I.) |
| Found in | Equal rites, unequal outcomes, 2003: CIP t.p. (Lilli S. Hornig, Comm. for the Equality of Women at Harvard) galley (Harvard M.A. '43, Ph.D. '50) Marquis Who's Who online, viewed May 11, 2018 (Lilli Schwenk Hornig; Born: Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic, March 22, 1921; Occupation: educational administrator, researcher; Education: AB in Chemistry magna cum laude with distinction, Bryn Mawr College, 1942; MA in Chemistry, Harvard University, 1943; PhD in Chemistry, Harvard University, 1950; Senior staff member, Los Alamos (New Mexico) Laboratory, 1944-46; Chairman chemistry department, Trinity College, Washington, 1966-69; Executive director higher education resource services, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1976-84; Senior consultant higher education resource services, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1984-; Immigration: came to U.S., 1933) Voices of the Manhattan Project website, viewed May 10, 2018 (Born in Czechoslovakia, Lilli Hornig and her family immigrated to the United States from Berlin after her father was threatened with imprisonment in a concentration camp. She was a young chemist when her husband, Don Hornig, was personally asked by George Kistiakowsky to come to Los Alamos to work on a secret project. At first she worked on plutonium chemistry, but after concern was raised that plutonium could cause "reproductive damage" for women, she began working for the explosives group. A witness to the Trinity test, she recalls the vivid colors of the blast. Lilli signed the Los Alamos scientists petition to have a demonstration of the bombs destruction rather than dropping it on Japan. <https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/lilli-hornigs-interview> New York Times online, viewed May 11, 2018 (Nov. 21, 2017, Lilli Hornig, 96, Dies; A-Bomb Researcher Lobbied for Women in Science; Dr. Lilli Hornig, who rejected a male chauvinistic job offer to type other scientists top secret reports during World War II and instead found her way to produce research that helped trigger the first atomic bomb, died on Friday in Providence, R.I. She was 96. Lilli Schwenk was born into a Jewish family on March 22, 1921, in Aussig, in the Sudetenland, which was then part of Czechoslovakia. (It is now called Usti Nad Labem and is in the Czech Republic, near the German border. They later moved to Berlin.) <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/lilli-hornig-96-dies-a-bomb-researcher-lobbied-for-women-in-science.html> |
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