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This site, authored by Professor Nina Byers of the University of California, Berkeley, is an electronic archive about 20th century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. Organized under their names, you will find brief documented descriptions of their major contributions to physics, biographical data, and a potpourri of some interesting information regarding their lives, achievements, and conditions of work.
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| Subject keyword(s) | General Physics, History, History/Policy/Law, Science -- Physics, Social studies -- World history, women |
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| Grade level | High School, Higher Education, Informal Education, Vocational/Professional Development Education |
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| Intended audience | Educator, Learner, Professional/Practitioner, Researcher |
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| Resource type | Collection, Community, Reference Material |
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| Resource format | image, image/jpeg, text, text/html |
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| Rights | UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department
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| Title | ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education |
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| Link | http://www.compadre.org/ |
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| Description | ComPADRE is a set of communities of teachers and students in physics and astronomy and web-based collections of resources to support their needs. The communities supported by ComPADRE are groups that can benefit from the sharing of materials, information, and experiences in a web environment. Example communities include teachers of specific physics or astronomy courses, societies of undergraduate physics and astronomy students, and teachers addressing specific grade levels, such as high-school or middle-school teachers. Resources included in the collections are chosen to enhance the teaching and learning experience, and include multimedia learning objects, lesson plans, tutorials, laboratories and other student activities, and discussion forums on the use of these materials. The different collections are organized under the ComPADRE umbrella, which provides a central database (the Physical Sciences Resource Center), technical support, support for collection editors and community leaders, and the means to coordinate efforts across the communities. |
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| Title | AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository |
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| Link | http://amser.org/ |
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| Description | AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for those in community and technical colleges, but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout. |
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Content contained within the resource
INTRODUCTION 83Eminent Physicists A Guide to This Site Searchthe Archive FascinatingDocuments AnnotatedPhoto Gallery In HerOwn Words SomePhysics History 500+Books and Articles FieldEditors Acknowledgements Photo Credits Copyright Notice AN ARCHIVE PRESENTING AND DOCUMENTING SOME IMPORTANT ANDORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BEFORE 1976 BY 20th CENTURYWOMEN. Whose faces are shown above? The graphic show the faces of some physicists spanning threegenerations. Click here for theirnames.They are among the 83 women for whom data is archived in this website. What can you find in this archive? Descriptions of important contributions to science made by83 women in the 20th century. Theseare documented by the original papers in which the discoveries werefirst reported. In addition there are historical essays and other historicaldocuments noteasily available elsewhere. Where are 17th, 18th, and 19th century women? Women in those centuries did not have access toinstitutions of higher learning. Their participation in scientificdiscovery was not possible. There are some notable exceptions such asÉmilie du Châtelet, Sofia Kovalevskya, and Mary Somervillebut generally women' intellectual development was thwarted. Brief historical account.. Why only three quarters of the 20thcentury? By the last quarter ofthe century there were many more women working as physicist than inearlier years, too many for this website. Each woman in this website has been carefully and thoroughlyresearched, and the descriptions oftheir work vetted by distinguished colleagues who served as Field Editors. Why only 83 women? Webelieve there are more women whose contributions should be recognizedbut time and resources did not allow for further additions.This work would not have been possible without the generous support ofThe Alfred P. SloanFoundation, the AmericanPhysical Society, the University of California, UCLA Physics andAstronomy Department, the Laboratories of NIST, Joan Palevsky and othergenerous donors. How can we browsethis archive? By the name of anindividual woman physicist chosen, for example, from the list on theright or from the Annotated PhotoGallery or from her quotation In Her Own Words orby using the Search Engine provided. And then? Follow the clues and click away! If you desire furtherreading,we suggest some books and articles on the webpages and have included avery large reference database in this website. Welcome toCWP! Project Staff Astrophysics Burbidge,E. M. Burnell,Jocelyn Faber,Sandra Leavitt,Henrietta Payne-Gaposchkin,Cecilia Rubin,Vera Atomic, Molecular, and OpticalPhysics Bonnelle,Christiane Bramley, Jenny Cauchois,Yvette Connes,Janine Sponer,Hertha Condensed Matter Physics Ancker-Johnson,Betsy Blodgett,Katharine Cladis,Patricia Conwell,Esther Dresselhaus,Mildred Ericson,Magda Kaufman,Bruria Sarachik,Myriam Levelt Sengers,Johanna Cosmic Rays Freier,Phyllis S. Crystallography Franklin,Rosalind Hodgkin, Dorothy Lonsdale,Kathleen Megaw,Helen Distinguished Public Service Dowdy, NancyM. Contributions to Medicine Quimby,Edith Yalow,Rosalyn Education and the Profession DeWitt-Morette,Cecile Franz,Judy Jackson,Shirley Keith,Marcia Laird, Elizabeth Maltby,Margaret Meyer, Kirstine Phillips,Melba Stone,Isabelle Whiting,Sarah Xie, Xide(Hsi-teh Hsieh) Fluid Dynamics Pockels,Agnes Polubarinova-Kochina,P. Ya. Fluid Dynamics and PlasmaPhysics Ayrton,Hertha Geophysics Lehmann,Inge Materials Science Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf,Doris Neumark, Gertrude Mathematical Physics Cartwright,Mary L. Choquet-Bruhat,Yvette Dolan,Louise Ehrenfest-Afanaseva,Titania Jeffreys, BerthaSwirles Kallosh,Renata Kaufman,Bruria Noether,Amalie Emmy Nuclear Physics Ajzenberg-Selove,Faye Brooks,Harriet Curie, MarieSklodowska Ericson,Magda Gates,Fanny Gleditsch,Ellen Goldhaber,Gertrude Scharff Hayward,Evans Joliot-Curie,Irene Karlik, Berta Koller,Noemie Benczer Mayer,Maria Meitner,Lise Meyer-Schutzmeister,Luise Noddack,Ida Tacke Perey,Marguerite Phillips,Melba Way,Katharine Wu,Chien Shiung Particles and Fields Baldo-Ceolin,Milla Blau,Marietta Byers,Nina Edwards,Helen Gaillard, MaryK. Goldhaber,Sulamith Hanson, Gail Lee-Franzini,Juliet Quinn,Helen Sechi-Zorn,Bice Wu, SauLan Physics of Beams Edwards,Helen Space Physics Herzenberg,Caroline Kivelson,Margaret Neugebauer,Marcia
