Women in physics
Women Radio Astronomers: Ruby Payne-Scott, the first Woman Radio Astronomer and Nan Dieter Conklin- First US Women Radio Astronomer
Presented by Dr. Miller Goss, NRAO
I have written two books about Payne-Scott, an Australian pioneer who started her radio astronomy career in WWII in March 1944 in Sydney. Her career was shaped by World War II. She is the discoverer of Type II and Type III solar bursts. Her remarkable career extended until she had her first child in 1951. Nan Dieter got a PhD in astronomy at Harvard in 1958. She was one of my PhD advisors at Berkely in the 1960s. She contracted MS in 1959. She died in Nov 2014. The lives and experiences of both are exhibited by success in the face of continued discrimination.
12:30 pm, Wednesday, November 18, 2015
PAIS-2540, PAIS
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