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| Gibor Basri
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African-American astrophysicist, now Professor Emeritus in the Astronomy department at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on stellar magnetic activity, star formation, and low mass stars and brown dwarfs
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[58][59]
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| Clayton W. Bates
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[60][61]
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| Helen M. Berman
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Structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes, and the role of water in molecular interactions
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[62][63]
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| Ann Merchant Boesgaard
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Astronomer and professor who received the American Astronomical Society's highest award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2019.
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[64]
[65]
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| Edward Bouchet
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[66]
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| Robert Henry Bragg Jr.
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African-American physicist and professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering
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[67][68][69]
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| Jenny Rosenthal Bramley
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Russian-born American physicist cited by the IEEE as being "well known for her innovative work in lasers"
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[70]
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| Herman Branson
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American physicist, chemist, best known for his research on the alpha helix protein structure, and was also the president of two colleges
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[71][72][73][74]
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| Yvonne Brill
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Canadian-American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today.
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[75]
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| Harriet Brooks
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First Canadian female nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity
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[76]
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| Warren Buck
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American physicist credited with establishing the physics PhD program at Hampton University, a historically Black college in Hampton, Virginia
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[77]
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| Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients
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[78][79]
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| Annie Jump Cannon
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American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. She was nearly deaf throughout her career. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party.
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[80]
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| George Robert Carruthers
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African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA
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[81][82][83]
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| Hattie Carwell
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American physicist and former scientist with the United States Department of Energy and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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[84]
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| Catherine Cesarsky
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Argentine and French astronomer, known for her successful research activities in several central areas of modern astrophysics.
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[85]
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| Cathie Clarke
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Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. In 2017 she became the first woman to be awarded the Eddington Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society.
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| Janet Howell Clark
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Worked in physiology and biophysics at Johns Hopkins. Researched the effect of radiation on humans
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| Judith Gamora Cohen
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American astronomer and the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. She is a recognized expert regarding the Milky Way Galaxy, particularly with respect to the Galaxy's outer halo. She also played a key role in the design and construction of the Keck Telescope.
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[86]
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| France Córdova
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American astrophysicist and administrator who was the fourteenth director of the National Science Foundation
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[87]
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| Anne Cowley
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American astronomer known for her spectroscopic observations of stars and stellar black holes, including the 1983 discovery of a likely black hole in LMC X-3, an X-ray binary star system in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This became the first known extragalactic stellar black hole.
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[88]
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| James C. Davenport
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American physicist and physics professor. He specializes in condensed matter physics. He is one of the founders of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP).
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[89]
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| Sarah Demers
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Particle physicist who studies the fundamental particles and forces of nature. Her recent work has focused on the characterization of the Higgs Boson and a measurement of tau polarization with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collide
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[90]
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| Jane Dewey
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Pioneer in quantum optics
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[91]
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| Nan Dieter-Conklin
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American radio astronomer
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[92][93]
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| Ewine van Dishoeck
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Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union
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[94]
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| Persis Drell
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American physicist best known for her expertise in the field of particle physics. She was the director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 2007 to 2012
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[95]
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| Charles Duke
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Architect, engineer, and public official who advocated for opportunities for African Americans and helped found the National Technical Association (NTA) in 1925.
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[96]
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| Andrea Dupree
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Harvard & Smithsonian. She is a Past-President of the American Astronomical Society, and served as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
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[97]
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| Halson V. Eagleson
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American physicist and professor, and the fifth African American person to receive a PhD in physics in the United States.
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[98]
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| Donald Anderson Edwards
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Edwards was the founding chair of the physics department at North Carolina A&T State University, and spent his career teaching there and at other historically Black colleges and universities across the United States.
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[99]
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| Jerry C. Elliott
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Physicist and was one of the first Native Americans who worked at NASA
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[100]
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| Robert Ellis (physicist)
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[101][102]
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| Thomas H. Epps III
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African-American chemist and the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware
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[103]
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| Glennys Farrar
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Professor of physics at New York University who specializes in particle physics, cosmology and the study of dark matter
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[104]
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| Wendy Freedman
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Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile.
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[105]
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| Joseph Francisco
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Former president of the American Chemical Society from 2009 to 2010. He currently serves as the President's Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
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[106]
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| Yoshio Fujita
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Japanese astronomer known for his contributions on spectroscopic observations of low temperature stars.
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[107]
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| Fanny Gates
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American physicist, made contributions to the research of radioactive materials, determining that radioactivity could not be destroyed by heat or ionization due to chemical reactions, and that radioactive materials differ from phosphorescent materials both qualitatively and quantitatively
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[108]
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| Elsa M. Garmire
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She is the Sydney E. Junkins Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where she has served as Dean of Thayer School of Engineering.
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[109]
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| Sylvester James Gates
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American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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[110][111]
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| Roscoe Conkling Giles
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American medical doctor and surgeon. He was the first African American to earn a degree from Cornell University Medical College.
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[112]
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| Larry Gladney
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American experimental particle physicist and cosmologist. In 2019, he became Professor of Physics and the Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development at Yale University.
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[113]
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| Jenny Pickworth Glusker
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British biochemist and crystallographer. Since 1956 she has worked at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, a National Cancer Research Institute in the United States
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[114]
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| Anjelica Gonzalez
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Afro-Latin American biomedical engineer, scientist, and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University and is part of the Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program.
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[115]
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| Meredith Gourdine
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African American athlete, engineer and physicist.
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| Gabriela González
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Argentinian-American professor of physics and astronomy at the Louisiana State University. She was the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from March 2011 until March 2017.
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[116]
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| Janet Brown Guernsey
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Professor of physics at Wellesley College. She was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers and served as President from 1975 to 1976
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[117]
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| James Andrew Harris
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African-American nuclear chemist who was involved in the discovery of elements 104 and 105 (rutherfordium and dubnium, respectively).
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[118]
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| Frances Hellman
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Her primary academic focus has been the study of the thermodynamic properties of novel solid materials, especially thin film semiconducting, superconducting, and magnetic materials
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[119][120]
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| Warren Elliot Henry
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African-American physicist, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in the fields of magnetism and superconductivity He made significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology and education, training and mentoring several generations of physicists.
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[121][122][123]
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| Evelynn Hammonds
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American feminist and scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College
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[124][125]
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| Martha P. Haynes
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American astronomer who specializes in radio astronomy and extragalactic astronomy. She is the Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Astronomy at Cornell University.
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[126]
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| Bambang Hidayat
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Indonesian scientist known for promoting astronomy nationally and internationally. His work has focused on the study of binary stars and galactic structure
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[127]
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| Wendell T. Hill
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[128]
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| Dorrit Hoffleit
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American senior research astronomer at Yale University. She is most widely known for her work in variable stars, astrometry, spectroscopy, meteors, and the Bright Star Catalog, as well as her mentorship of many young women and generations of astronomers
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[129][130]
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| Sarah Hörst
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Associate professor of planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins University, who focuses on understanding planetary atmospheric hazes, in particular the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan
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[131]
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| K. Renee Horton
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Horton currently serves as the Space Launch System (SLS) Quality Engineer in the NASA Residential Management Office at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. She worked for NASA, first as a student from 2009 to 2011, and then started her career as a mechanical test engineer in 2012
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[132]
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| Roberta M. Humphreys
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American observational stellar astrophysicist. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. Her work has included Galactic structure, observational stellar evolution, stellar populations, and large databases. She is best known for her research on massive stars in the Milky Way and in nearby resolved galaxies.
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[133]
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| John McNeile Hunter
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American physicist and chemist, and the third African American person to receive a PhD in physics in the United States.
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[134]
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| Elmer Imes
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Second African-American person to earn a Ph.D. in physics and the first in the 20th century. He was among the first African-American scientists to make important contributions to modern physics
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| Shirley Ann Jackson
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First African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), also the second African-American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.
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[138][139][140]
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| Anthony Johnson
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American experimental physicist, a professor of physics, and a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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[141][142][143]
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| Clifford V. Johnson
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English theoretical physicist, research focus is in superstring theory and particle physics, specifically related to strongly coupled phenomena
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| Joseph Johnson III
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American physicist and Professor at the Florida A&M University. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Physicists.
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[146]
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| Herbert W. Jones
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[147]
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| Jo Ann Joselyn
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First woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Colorado's astrogeophysics program, and has advocated for the importance of women's leadership in the sciences. From 1968 to 1999, she worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as a space scientist and space weather forecaster
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[148][149][150]
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| Vicky Kalogera
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Greek astrophysicist. She is a professor at Northwestern University and the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). She is a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration that observed gravitational waves in 2015.
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[151]
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| Marcia Keith
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Physicist, teacher of physics to women, and a charter member of the American Physical Society since its founding in 1899
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[152][153]
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| Margaret G. Kivelson
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American space physicist, planetary scientist, and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Space Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary research interests include the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Recent research has also focused on Jupiter's Galilean moons
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[154][155]
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| Gillian R. Knapp
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American professor of astronomical sciences at Princeton University. She is a faculty fellow at Whitman College and has been involved in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and she is an active member of the International Astronomical Union.
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[156]
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| Chryssa Kouveliotou
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Greek astrophysicist. She is a professor at George Washington University and a retired senior technologist in high-energy astrophysics at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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[157][158]
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| Martha Krebs
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Theoretical physicist who directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the United States Department of Energy from 1993 to 2000. She later went on to be the founding director for the University of California, Los Angeles's California NanoSystems Institute
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[159][160]
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| Elizabeth Laird
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Canadian physicist who chaired the physics department at Mount Holyoke College for nearly four decades. She was the first woman accepted by Sir J. J. Thomson to conduct research at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. Laird graduated from the London Collegiate Institute in 1893
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| Hélène Langevin-Joliot
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Professor of nuclear physics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the University of Paris and a director of research at the CNRS. She is also known for her work in actively encouraging women to pursue careers in scientific fields
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[162][163]
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| Grace Langford
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American physicist known for her work in physics education and research on the infrared reflection of phosphates
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| James Raymond Lawson
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American physicist and university administrator. He was the president of Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1967 to 1975.
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[164]
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| Harold Ralph Lewis
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[165]
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| Vera Lüth
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Experimental particle physicist and professor emerita at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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[166]
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| Katie Mack
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Theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation
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[167][168]
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| Arthur Stanley Mackenzie
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Physicist and president of Dalhousie University.
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Image becomes public domain in 2024: [169]
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| Harriet Malitson
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American astronomer. She was a solar researcher, employed at Goddard Space Flight Center and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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[170]
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| Ronald Mallett
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American theoretical physicist, academic and author. He has been a faculty member of the University of Connecticut since 1975 and is best known for his scientific position on the possibility of time travel
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[171]
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| Margaret Eliza Maltby
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American physicist notable for measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. Maltby was the first woman to be awarded a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) degree from MIT
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[172]
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| Kenneth Manning
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American academic professor and author. He is currently the Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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[173]
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| Reina Maruyama
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Japanese–American experimental particle/atomic/nuclear physicist
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[174]
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| Nadya Mason
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Condensed matter experimentalist, she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems
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[175]
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| Walter E. Massey
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American educator, physicist, and executive. President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and of Morehouse College, he is chairman of the board overseeing construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope
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[176][177][178]
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| Nergis Mavalvala
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Pakistani-American astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on the detection of gravitational waves in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010
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[179]
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| Margaret Mayall
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She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1949 to 1973
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[180][181]
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| Walter McAfee
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American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world's first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana.
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[182]
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| Lillian McDermott
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American physicist. In the early 1970s, McDermott established the Physics Education Group (PEG) at the University of Washington to "improve the teaching and learning of physics from kindergarten all the way through graduate school."
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[183]
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| Louise Sherwood McDowell
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American physicist and educator. She spent most of her career as a professor of physics at Wellesley College and is best known for being one of the first female scientists to work at the United States Bureau of Standards
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[184]
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| Cynthia Roberta McIntyre
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Theoretical physicist and former Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness.
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[185]
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| Ronald McNair
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American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven. Prior to the Challenger disaster, he flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-B aboard Challenger from February 3 to 11, 1984, becoming the second African American and the first Baháʼí to fly in space.
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[186]
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| Marta Dark McNeese
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Optical biohysicist working on laser interactions with biomaterials and department chair at Spelman College
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[187]
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| Ronald E. Mickens
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American physicist and mathematician who is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Physics at Clark Atlanta University. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamics and mathematical modeling, including modeling epidemiology
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[188][189]
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| Kelly Miller (scientist)
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American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century.
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[190]
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| Dolphus Milligan
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American chemist, research focused on spectroscopic study of reaction intermediates at extremely low temperature
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[191]
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| Willie Hobbs Moore
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American physicist and engineer. She was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in physics
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[192]
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| Harry Lee Morrison
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Focused on the relationship between microscopic physics and macroscopic physics. In particular, he concentrated on the theory of superfluid helium, to which he devoted most of his research life
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| Sekazi Mtingwa
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American theoretical high-energy physicist. He is a co-recipient of the 2017 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators. He is the first African-American to be awarded the prize.
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[196]
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| Carole Mundell
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Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the University of Bath. She is an observational astrophysicist who researches cosmic black holes and gamma ray bursts.
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[197]
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| Priyamvada Natarajan
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Professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy, particularly with her work in gravitational lensing, and in models describing the assembly and accretion histories of supermassive black holes.
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[198]
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| Homer Neal
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American particle physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of Michigan. Neal was President of the American Physical Society in 2016.
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| Dara Norman
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Astronomer and the Deputy Director of the Community Science and Data Center at the National Science Foundation's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) in Tucson, Arizona. She is also the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Diversity Advocate at NOAO.
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| Marjorie Olmstead
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American condensed matter physicist.
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| Piermaria Oddone
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Peruvian-American particle physicist.
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[202]
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| Nai Phuan Ong
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American experimental physicist, specializing in "condensed matter physics focusing on topological insulators, Dirac/Weyl semimetals, superconductors and quantum spin liquids
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[203]
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| Feryal Özel
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Turkish-American astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena
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| Titus Pankey
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African American physicist and professor whose research specialties were magnetic susceptibility and cosmology, especially supernovas.
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| C. Kumar N. Patel
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Electrical engineer who developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963.
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| Benjamin F. Peery
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Second African American person to earn a PhD in astronomy, Howard University professor, research interest in cool giant stars, like VV Cephei, but moved to the study of systems where the radioactive element technetium could be identified in the spectrum
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| Hiranya Peiris
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British astrophysicist at University College London and Stockholm University, best known for her work on the cosmic microwave background radiation. She was one of 27 scientists who received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018 for their "detailed maps of the early universe."
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| Julia Phillips
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American physicist. She began her career in materials research on thin films on semiconductors and has transitioned into leadership roles in science policy
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[209]
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| Melba Phillips
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American physicist and pioneer science educator. One of the first doctoral students of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, Phillips completed her Ph.D. in 1933, a time when few women pursued careers in science
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| Philip Phillips (physicist)
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Theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has contributed to the studies of various topics in modern physics including high temperature superconductivity and gauge–gravity duality
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[212]
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| Nan Phinney
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American accelerator physicist at SLAC. She was program coordinator for the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC), the world's first linear collider. Her research interests are high energy colliders and linear colliders
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| Judith Pipher
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Canadian-born American astrophysicist and observational astronomer. She was Professor Emerita of Astronomy at the University of Rochester and directed the C. E. K. Mees Observatory from 1979 to 1994. She made important contributions to the development of infrared detector arrays in space telescopes.
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| Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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American theoretical cosmologist and particle physicist at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a political activist.
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[215]
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| Lynnae Quick
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American planetary geophysicist and Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research centers on theoretical modeling of cryovolcanic processes on the icy moons and dwarf planets in our solar system as well as modeling volcanic activity on Venus and the Moon. Quick is a member of the Dawn, Europa Clipper, and Dragonfly Mission science teams
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| Helen Quinn
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Australian-born particle physicist and educator who has made major contributions to both fields. Her contributions to theoretical physics include the Peccei–Quinn theory which implies a corresponding symmetry of nature (related to matter-antimatter symmetry and the possible source of the dark matter that pervades the universe) and contributions to the search for a unified theory for the three types of particle interactions (strong, electromagnetic, and weak)
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| Ainissa Ramirez
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American materials scientist and science communicator
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| Kennedy J. Reed
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American theoretical atomic physicist in the Theory Group in the Physics & Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a founder of the National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC), a group of about 30 universities that provides physics fellowships for women and minorities.
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| Ana Maria Rey
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Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, a JILA fellow, a fellow at National Institute of Standards and Technology and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Rey was the first Hispanic woman to win the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2019
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| Steven Richardson (physicist)
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| Willie Rockward
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Professor of Physics at Morgan State University. He works on micro-optics and laser technologies. He is the President of the National Society of Black Physicists.
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| Carl A. Rouse
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American physicist, working in the fields of atomic, plasma, and computational physics. Rouse was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech (and only the fifth African American person ever to earn such a degree).
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| Jorge Sahade
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Argentine astronomer, first Latin American person to achieve the presidency of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) between 1985 and 1988,[4][2][7] and was also the first director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
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[226]
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| Myriam Sarachik
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Belgian-born American experimental physicist. From 1996, she was a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York.
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[227]
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| Anneila Sargent
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Scottish–American astronomer who specializes in star formation.
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| Sara Seager
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Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres.
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[229]
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| Lu Jeu Sham
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American physicist. He is best known for his work with Walter Kohn on the Kohn–Sham equations.
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| Marjorie Shapiro
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American experimental particle physicist, a collaborator on the ATLAS experiment, a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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| Earl D. Shaw
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| Charlotte Moore Sitterly
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American astronomer. She is known for her extensive spectroscopic studies of the Sun and chemical elements. Her tables of data are known for their reliability and are still used regularly
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| James Stith
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American physicist and educator. He is known for his influential roles in multiple scientific societies. He is the former vice president of the Physics Resource Center at the American Institute of Physics, a past president of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and a past president of the National Society of Black Physicists
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| Isabelle Stone
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American physicist and educator. She was one of the founders of the American Physical Society. She was among the first women to be awarded a PhD in physics in the United States
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| Kandice Tanner
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Trinidad and Tobago biophysicist researching the metastatic traits that allow tumor cells to colonize secondary organs. She is a Senior Investigator (full tenure) at the National Cancer Institute, where she is head of the Tissue morphodynamics section
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| Julius H. Taylor
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Professor emeritus at Morgan State University, where he was also the first chairperson of the department of physics, which he helped to establish at the university. He was the second African-American person to receive a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the first African-American person to receive a PhD in physics at the university
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| Hubert Mack Thaxton
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American nuclear physicist, mathematician, engineer, and the fourth African American person to earn a PhD in physics in the United States.
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| M. Elaine Toms
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Physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory known for her experiments on photodisintegration of metals and for her Bibliography of Photonuclear Reactions.
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| Silvia Torres-Peimbert
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Mexican astronomer who won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2011 for Latin America for her work determining the chemical composition of nebulae.
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| Virginia Louise Trimble
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American astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy.
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| Meg Urry
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American astrophysicist, who has served as the President of the American Astronomical Society, as chair of the Department of Physics at Yale University, and as part of the Hubble Space Telescope faculty; notable not only for her contributions to astronomy and astrophysics, including work on black holes and multiwavelength surveys, but also for her work addressing sexism and gender equity in astronomy, science, and academia more generally
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| Jami Valentine
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African-American patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Notable as the first African American woman to graduate with a PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University. She also created the website AAWIP.com, which celebrates African American Women in Physics.
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| Demetrius Venable
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American physicist and professor emeritus at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Over his career, he has specialized in optical physics, and is known for establishing and developing physics programs at multiple historically Black universities.
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| Arthur B. C. Walker Jr.
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African-American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He is most noted for having developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona.
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| Warren Washington
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American atmospheric scientist, a former chair of the National Science Board, and currently senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
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| Dorothy Walcott Weeks
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American mathematician and physicist. Weeks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned degrees from Wellesley College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Simmons College. Weeks was the first woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| James West
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American inventor and acoustician. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.
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| Sarah Frances Whiting
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American physicist and astronomer. She was one of the founders and the first director of the Whitin Observatory at Wellesley College
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| Frances Wick
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American physicist known for her studies on luminescence
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| Barbara A. Williams
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American radio astronomer and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in astronomy (University of Maryland, College Park, 1981)
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| Lucy Wilson
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American physicist, known for her research on theories of vision, optics and X-ray spectroscopy. She was also the first Dean of Students at Wellesley College
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| Herbert Winful
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Ghanaian-American engineering professor, whose numerous honours include in 2020 the Quantum Electronics Award.
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| Sidney C. Wolff
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American astrophysicist, researcher, public educator, and author. She is the first woman in the United States to head a major observatory, and she provided significant contributions to the construction of six telescopes.
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| Rosemary Wyse
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Scottish astrophysicist and professor in the physics and astronomy department at Johns Hopkins University.
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| James Edward Young
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merican physicist who was the first Black tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Zhang Yuzhe
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Chinese astronomer and director of the Purple Mountain Observatory who is widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese astronomy.
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