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Brenda Pruden Winnewisser

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Brenda Pruden Winnewisser is a scientist and oral historian. She is the wife of Manfred Winnewisser, a professor of physics at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Winnewisser has collaborated on Manfred Winnewisser's research in terahertz science and technology.[1] According to Microsoft Academic Search, she has 122 research publications (as of 2014).[2]

Early life and education

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Winnewisser grew up in Newark, New Jersey and South Orange, New Jersey. She graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Orange, New Jersey in 1957. Winnewisser then completed her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1961.[3] Her role model at Wellesley, Janet Brown Guernsey, encouraged her to pursue a career in physics. After earning her PhD from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Winnewisser received a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[1]

Oral history projects

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Winnewisser conducts oral history projects on physics pioneers in collaboration with the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Maryland.[4] She has published books and other works on Hedwig Kohn,[5] Walter Gordy,[6] and other figures.

Family

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Winnewisser married Manfred Winnewisser in South Orange, New Jersey in 1965.

References

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  1. ^ a b Siegel, Peter (2013). "Terahertz Pioneers: Manfred Winnewisser and Brenda Pruden Winnewisser". IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 3 (3). doi:10.1109/TTHZ.2013.2256392. S2CID 8527413.
  2. ^ Brenda P. Winnewisser
  3. ^ "Class Notes". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 57 (29): 33. 1957.
  4. ^ "Brenda P. Winnewisser". Jewish Women's Archive: Encyclopedia.
  5. ^ Winnewisser, Brenda (1998). The Emigration of Hedwig Kohn, Physicist, 1940.
  6. ^ De Lucia, Frank C.; Winnewisser, Brenda P. (2007). Walter Gordy. The National Academies Press.