Rose Mooney-Slater
Born	Rose Camille LeDieu (1902-10-23)October 23, 1902
Died	November 21, 1981(1981-11-21) (aged 79)
Alma mater	Newcomb College (B.S., M.S.) University of Chicago (PhD.)
Spouses	Carroll Edgerton Mooney John C. Slater ​ ​ ( m. 1954; died 1976)​
Scientific career
Fields	X-ray crystallography
Institutions	Newcomb College Metallurgical Laboratory National Bureau of Standards Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Florida

Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater (23 October 1902 – 21 November 1981) was a professor of physics at the Newcomb College of the Tulane University and the first female X-ray crystallographer in the United States. ^{[1] [2]}

Life

Rose Camille LeDieu was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. ^{[3] [4]} Mooney-Slater received a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the Newcomb College of the Tulane University in 1926 and 1929, respectively. ^[1] In 1932, she received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. ^[1]

In 1933, she became a professor of physics at the Newcomb College. ^[1] She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1939. ^[1] In 1941, she was appointed the head of the physics department at Newcomb College. ^[1] From 1943 to 1944, she worked as a research physicist and crystallographer on the Manhattan Project in the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago. ^[1] From 1952 to 1956, she worked as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards. ^[1] From 1956 to 1981, she served as a research physicist at MIT. ^[1] From 1966 to 1974, she taught physics at the University of Florida. ^[1] In 1954 she married fellow physicist John C. Slater. ^{[2] [5]} Mooney-Slater died on 21 November 1981. ^[6]

Awards

She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the American Physical Society. ^{[2] [7]}

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