Ursula Franklin

Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a German-Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years.

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.

Category:1921 births
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Category:Academics of the University of Toronto
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Category:Canadian feminists
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Category:Holocaust survivors
Category:Metallurgists
Category:Naturalized citizens of Canada
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Category:University of Toronto alumni