Wilma S Mangum
Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy
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Eleanor B Barnes
Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy
Gladys Joslin
Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy
Virginia Kruse
Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy
Agnes Williams
Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy
Margaret G Kivelson
American astrophysicist
Donna Strickland
In 2018, Strickland became the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in physics.
Marion Brickwedde
Marion Brickwedde held a B.S. in chemistry (1929) and M.S. in physics (1930), and went on to teach physics at George Washington University and Pennsylvania State University, and served on the research staffs of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Kihana Wilson
American astrophysicist and writer
Barbara Wharton Low
Biochemist Barbara Low discovered the elemental components of penicillin that enabled mass production and conversion into other antibiotic compounds. Until then, the life-saving drug had not been successfully synthesised.