Research Catalog

Title

A woman's place in science and public affairs, 1932-1973 : interviews / Anne deGruchy Low-Beer Dettner ; with introductions by Helene Maxwell Brewer and Lawrence Kramer ; conducted by Sally Hughes and Gabrielle Morris in 1994 and 1995.

Author

Dettner, Anne deGruchy Low-Beer, 1905-

Publication

[Berkeley] : Bancroft Library, University of California/Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, c1996.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, Sally Smith.
• Morris, Gabrielle S.
• Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

Description

xxiii, 260 p. : ill., ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

Anne Dettner discusses her San Francisco family and 19th century forebears, her education at the University of California and Stanford, the Great Depression and serving as California Director of the National Youth Administration during the New Deal, her career in radiology at Stanford and Berkeley, her life with Bertram Low-Beer and George Dettner, and various public service activities especially the League of Women Voters.

Series Statement

University of California source of community leaders series

Uniform Title

University of California source of community leaders series.

Subject

• Low-Beer, Bertram V. A., 1900-1955
• Dettner, George
• United States. National Youth Administration (Calif.)
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
• Crocker Radiation Laboratory
• Radiologists > California > Interviews
• Depressions > 1929 > California
• New Deal, 1933-1939 > California
• Radiology > Research > California
• Women scientists > Interviews
• Biochemists > California > Interviews

Genre/Form

Oral histories.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 37617771
• SCSB-11531046

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library