Gender, Science and Politics: Queen Frederika and Nuclear Research in Post-war Greece

Rentetzi, M

dc.contributor.author	Rentetzi, M	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:58:53Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:58:53Z
dc.date.issued	2009	en
dc.identifier.issn	0008-8994	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/28773
dc.subject	Gender and the physical sciences	en
dc.subject	Greece	en
dc.subject	history of nuclear physics	en
dc.subject	networking in science	en
dc.subject	Queen Frederika	en
dc.subject.classification	History & Philosophy Of Science	en
dc.title	Gender, Science and Politics: Queen Frederika and Nuclear Research in Post-war Greece	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2009	en
heal.abstract	In the 1950s a small group of scientists and politicians in Greece became determined to build a center for nuclear reactor research. With the exception of a handful of students trained in nuclear physics, no real expertise existed in the country. There were also no experienced administrators or managers ready to take the lead, and the existing national bureaucracy was labyrinthine. Thus a new scientific network had to be constituted largely from scratch in the Greek postwar sociopolitical order, a network that had to be extended to the international scientific community if it was to be efficient at all. Surprisingly, behind the construction of this scientific nuclear research project in Greece one can discern the female touch of a powerful and determined woman, Queen Frederika of Greece. I argue that she was the one who, by taking advantage of the United States' discourse on atomic energy for peace, was able to exploit the knots and nodes of her own political network, build new alliances and transform scattered resources into a grid that could underlay nuclear research in Greece and her own legitimacy in the country.	en
heal.publisher	WILEY-BLACKWELL	en
heal.journalName	CENTAURUS	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000208278700005	en
dc.identifier.volume	51	en
dc.identifier.issue	1	en
dc.identifier.spage	63	en
dc.identifier.epage	87	en