I felt myself longing to soar along with him in the realm of pure ideas, of complete and total academic isolation.” They marry before he relocates to Los Alamos for the war effort she eventually follows, and her plans to pursue a Ph.D. Meridian earns a scholarship to the University of Chicago in 1941, and soon attracts Alden Whetstone, a physics professor whom she describes as “a wholly intellectual creature barely cognizant of the physical world and its requirements. in ornithology, but is derailed by love and its consequences. Her mother, a biologist, followed him to Los Alamos, where Church grew up.Ĭhurch tells the story of Meridian Wallace, an ambitious young woman who aims to earn her Ph.D. Church’s father was a research chemist recruited to the Manhattan Project. Church’s debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love draws on her personal history to spin a compelling tale of an intelligent woman whose dreams are deferred in service to her husband’s nuclear work. Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
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