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The Atomic Weight of Love

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First published: 2016
Pages: 305

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The author of the book "The Atomic Weight of Love" is Elizabeth J. Church. The book is a novel that spans from World War II through the Vietnam War. The book tells the story of Meridian Wallace, a woman whose scientific ambitions get caught up in her relationships with two very different men. The story follows Meridian, an aspiring ornithologist. She put her career on hold and followed her physics professor husband to Los Alamos. where he was engaged in a secret government project.

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Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church examines women's ambitions against the roles their historical periods permit them to occupy. Her debut, The Atomic Weight of Love, traces Meridian Wallace from ornithology studies at the University of Chicago in 1941 through marriage to physicist Alden Whetstone and life in Los Alamos, where his work is tied to the Manhattan Project.

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