List of Female Scientists Before The 21st Century - 20th Century - Physics

Physics

  • Faye Ajzenberg-Selove (1926– ), American nuclear physicist, (2007 US National Medal of Science)
  • Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1929–), American plasma physicist
  • Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924–2011), Italian particle physicist
  • Marietta Blau (1894–1970), German experimental particle physicist
  • Katharine Blodgett (1898–1979), American thin-film physicist
  • Christiane Bonnelle, French spectroscopist
  • Margrete Heiberg Bose, Danish physicist (active in Argentina from 1909)
  • Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909–1997), Lithuanian-American physicist,
  • Harriet Brooks (1876–1933), American radiation physicist
  • A. Catrina Bryce (1956–), Scottish laser scientist
  • Nina Byers (1930–), American physicist
  • Yvette Cauchois (1908–1999), French physicist
  • Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–), French theoretical physicist
  • Patricia Cladis (1937–), Canadian/American physicist
  • Esther Conwell (1922–), American physicist, semiconductors
  • Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–), French mathematician and physicist
  • Louise Dolan, American mathematical physicist, theoretical particle physics and superstring theory
  • Nancy M. Dowdy (1938–), Nuclear physicist, arms control
  • Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–), American physicist, graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and low dimensional thermoelectrics
  • Helen T. Edwards (1936–), American physicist, Tevatron
  • Magda Ericson (1929–), French nuclear physicist
  • Ursula Franklin (1921–), Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator
  • Judy Franz (1938–), American physicst and educator
  • Phyllis S. Freier (1921–1992), American astrophysicist
  • Mary K. Gaillard (1939–), American theoretical physcist
  • Fanny Gates (1872–1931), American physicist
  • Claire F. Gmachl, American physicist
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), German-American physicist
  • Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911–1998), American nuclear physicist
  • Sulamith Goldhaber (1923–1965), American high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist
  • Gail Hanson (1947–), American high-energy physicist
  • Evans Hayward (1922–), American physicist
  • Caroline Herzenberg (1932–), American physicist
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994), British X-ray crystallographer
  • Shirley Jackson (1946–), American nuclear physicist, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from M.I.T.
  • Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903–1999), British physicist
  • Lorella M. Jones (1943–1995), American particle physicist
  • Carole Jordan (1941–), British solar physicist
  • Renata Kallosh (1943–), Russian/American theoretical physicist
  • Berta Karlik (1904–1990), Austrian physicist
  • Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010 )
  • Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897-1968), Bulgarian nuclear physicist
  • Marcia Keith (1859–1950)
  • Ann Kiessling (1942–)
  • Margaret Kivelson (1928–)
  • Noemie Benczer Koller (1933–)
  • Ninni Kronberg (1874-1946), Swedish physiologist in nutrition
  • Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922–2010)
  • Elizabeth Laird (physicist) (1874–1969)
  • Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933–)
  • Inge Lehmann (1888–1993)
  • Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971)
  • Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860–1944), American physicist
  • Helen Megaw (1907–)
  • Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian nuclear physicist (pioneering nuclear physics, discovery of nuclear fission, protactinum, and the Auger effect)
  • Kirstine Meyer (1861–1941)
  • Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915–1981)
  • Anna Nagurney Canadian-born, US operations researcher/management scientist focusing on networks
  • Chiara Nappi, Italian American physicist
  • Ann Nelson (1958–), American physicist
  • Marcia Neugebauer,
  • Gertrude Neumark (1927–)
  • Ida Tacke Noddack (1896–1979)
  • Emmy Noether (1882–1935), German mathematician and theoretical physicist (symmetries and conservation laws)
  • Marguerite Perey (1909–1975)
  • Melba Phillips (1907–2004)
  • Agnes Pockels (1862–1935)
  • P. Ya. Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–), Russian physicist
  • Edith Quimby (1891–1982)
  • Helen Quinn (1943–), American particle physicist
  • Lisa Randall (1962–), American physicist
  • Myriam Sarachik (1933–), American physicist
  • Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928–1984), Italian/American nuclear physicist
  • Johanna Levelt Sengers, Dutch/American physicist
  • Hertha Sponer (1895–1968), German/American physicist and chemist
  • Isabelle Stone (1868–1944), American thin-film physicist and educator
  • Katharine Way (1903–1995), American nuclear physicist
  • Leona Woods (1919–1986), American nuclear physicist
  • Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), Chinese-American physicist (nuclear physics, (non) conservation of parity)
  • Sau Lan Wu, Chinese-American particle physicist
  • Xide Xie (Hsi-teh Hsieh) (1921–2000), Chinese physicist
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–), American medical physicist (Nobel prize for radioimmunoassay)

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