Born: 1909, United States (assumed)
Died: 1997
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Marion Langhorne Howard
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
In the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, a black and white photograph filed as Image No. SIA2008-0031 features a man and a woman. The woman, 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. The photograph’s original caption reads, “Dr. F. G. Brickwedde and his wife with the apparatus for making heavy water.”