According to Wikipedia, Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks; and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 1986 and 2012. Franklin was a practising Quaker and actively worked on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. She wrote and spoke extensively about the futility of war and the connection between peace and social justice. Franklin received numerous honours and awards, including the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case for promoting the equality of girls and women in Canada and the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work in advancing human rights. In 2012, she was inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame. A Toronto high school, Ursula Franklin Academy, as well as Ursula Franklin Street on the University of Toronto campus, have been named in her honor.
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Evety tool shapes the task : communities and information highway (1996) (3)
Folding: a prehistoric way of working native copper in the North American arctic (1982) (3)
Studies in ancient Peruvian metalworking : an investigation of objects from the Museo Oro del Peru exhibited in Canada in 1976-77 under the title "Gold for the Gods" (1979) (2)
Beyond the hype: thinking about the information highway. (1996) (2)
Stormy weather : Conflicting forces in the Information Society (1996) (2)
Peace: A Necessity for an Equal Society (1988) (1)
Commemoration for the Montreal Massacre Victims (1991) (1)
Conservation of the Punic Collection at the Museum of Carthage. Part II - Transfer of Conservation Technology: Establishment of a Salvage Conservation Laboratory (2000) (1)
Women and Militarism (1988) (0)
Book Review: A Critical Work II. Ways of Art: Literature. Music, Painting in France (1987) (0)
Conservation of the Punic Collection at the Museum of Carthage. Part III - Transfer of Museological Technologies: Establishment of a Conservation-centred Didactic Gallery (2001) (0)
Faces of Feminism : Portraits of Women Across Canada, with Words by the Women Portrayed (1992) (0)
The Cross-National Mission of the Humanities in Higher Education: Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Understanding (1986) (0)
Conservation of the Punic Collection at the Museum of Carthage. Part I – Mapping the Collection: Methodology, Classification, and Assessment (2009) (0)
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