Women physicists Women physicists Beth Willman is an American astronomer at New York University, working with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. She and her team have discovered two Milky Way satellites so far, SDSSJ1049+5103 (known commonly as "Willman 1") and UMa dSph. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beth Willman"
Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄 Pinyin: Wú Jiànxíong) ( May 31, 1912– February 16, 1997) was a female Chinese American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the uranium fuel) and disproved the conservation of parity. Her nicknames to many scientists are " First Lady of Physics," " Madame Curie of China" and also "Madame Wu". ...more on Wikipedia about "Chien-Shiung Wu"
Émilie du Châtelet ( December 17, 1706 - September 10, 1749) was a French mathematician, physicist, and author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Émilie du Châtelet"
Harriet Brooks ( January 1, 1876 - January 1, 1933) was the first Canadian woman nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. She was regarded by many, including Ernest Rutherford, as being next to Marie Curie. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harriet Brooks"
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi ( Bologna, 31 October 1711 – 20 February 1778) was the first woman to officially teach at a college in Europe. Born into a wealthy family with a lawyer as a father, she was privately educated and tutored for seven years in her teens by Gaetano Tacconi. She came to the attention of Cardinal Prospero Lambertini who encouraged her in her scientific work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Laura Bassi"
Lene Vestergaard Hau (born Vejle, Denmark November 13 1959) is a Danish physicist. In 1999, she led a team from Harvard University who succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to momentarily stop a beam. She was able to achieve this by using a superfluid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lene Hau"
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a well-known American particle physicist, and the most cited high-energy physicist in the period 1999 to 2004. Her most famous discoveries are the Randall-Sundrum models, proposed with Raman Sundrum in 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lisa Randall"
Lise Meitner ( November 17, 1878– October 27, 1968) was an Austrian physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lise Meitner"
Maria Göppert-Mayer ( June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972) was born Maria Göppert in Katowice (then in Germany, now part of Poland) and became one of the few women to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maria Goeppert-Mayer"
Marie Curie ( Polish Maria Skłodowska-Curie, November 7 1867 – July 4 1934) was a chemist, pioneer in the early field of radiology and a two-time Nobel laureate. She also became the first woman ever appointed to teach at the Sorbonne. She was born in Poland and spent her early years there, but in 1891 at age 24 moved all to France to study science in Paris. She obtained all her higher degrees and conducted her scientific career there and became a naturalized French citizen. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marie Curie"
Melba Newell Phillips ( 1907 - 2004) was an American physicist and science educator. She compeleted her doctoral studies under J. Robert Oppenheimer and was also known for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on internal security, her actions leading to her dismissal by Brooklyn College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Melba Phillips"
Mildred S. Dresselhaus is an Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mildred Dresselhaus"
Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is a famous African-American physicist, and 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. In 2004 it was reported that Dr. Jackson made $891,400 for her services as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the highest among all American college and university presidents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shirley Jackson (physicist)"
The Honourable Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, O.C., S.O.M., D.Sc., LL.D., D.Hum.L., (born May 5, 1927) is a Canadian scientist, curler and former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sylvia Fedoruk"
Dr. Ursula Martius Franklin, CC , O.Ont , Ph.D , FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany) is a German- Canadian metallurgist and research physicist. She has also been active in promoting pacifist and feminist causes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ursula Franklin"
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