Physics: Famous Scientists
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50 Most Important Women in Science today (Discover magazine)
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American Institute of Physicists Bios
These are more like timelines of their lives, but works well for finding info like where they went to school.
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This database via Alameda County Public Library requires a library card to access. CLICK HERE to sign up for an e-card if you don't have one.
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Username: fremont
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Burnell, Jocelyn Bell (Guardian)
Short but contains a lot of the info you need.
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Burnell, Jocelyn Bell (Telegraph)
A short article that's mainly just useful as an illustration of how difficult it is for women to be recognized in STEM.
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Burnell, Jocelyn Bell: Pulsars
A short page about Burnell's (at that time, she still went by her maiden name of Bell at the time) discovery of pulsars
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American Institute of Physics
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Faber, Sandra (autobiographical sketch)
This interesting UCLA library page is a brief autobiography written by Faber in 1995
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Faber, Sandra (Franklin Institute page)
This page also includes a video about Faber
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From the U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Hidden Figures scientists (Johnson, Vaughan, Jackson)
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Hidden Figures: Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (Biography.com)
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Hidden Figures: Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (NASA bio)
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Hidden Figures: Dorothy Johnson Vaughan: Scout
This page tells the story of a major project that Vaughan worked on.
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Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson "The Girl Who Loved to Count"
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Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson (Makers series)
A video interview with Katherine Johnson
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Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson (Washington Post article #2)
This article tells the story of how the "hidden figures" were brought to light again by two female researchers after being forgotten.
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Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson (Washington Post)
A really cool article...
"Johnson said she was one of the first women to attend an editorial meeting at [NASA]. Usually only the men wrote papers, and they would all gather in a room to discuss the findings.
She said she 'wanted to know what they talk about.' So she asked. And when someone noted that women didn’t attend those meetings, she followed up with: 'Is there a law that says I can’t go?'”
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Hidden Figures: Scientific American (Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson)
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Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Search for a name in the search box
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Ocampo Uria, Adriana (NASA page)
Tip: Also try searching just Adriana Ocampo
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*Note: this page is in Spanish*
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This article is from the magazine of a British Engineering and Technology school.
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Sievert, Rolf (obituary published in a radiology journal after his death)
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Smithsonian Magazine historical female scientists (for Meitner and Joliot-Curie from the list)
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From UC Berkeley
