Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Fall 2009 Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS, AAPT, and SPS
Volume 54, Number 13
Thursday–Saturday, October 22–24, 2009; San Marcos, Texas
Session H1: Women in Physics Poster Session (10:00AM-12:00PM) |
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Chair: Mary Beth Monroe, Southwest Texas Junior College Room: LBJ Student Center 3-11.1 |
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H1.00001: Wise Words on Physics and Life as a woman Toni Sauncy, Lauren Bennett, Tanya Dax This poster highlights a few key women who participated in physics over the last century with some humorous and not so humorous quotes about being a female being a physicist. The tenacity and resolve of women who faced challenges as they pursued their passion for science is obvious in only a few short words. Their words of wisdom will undoubtedly stimulate discussion, reflection and awe. [Preview Abstract] |
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H1.00002: Physics Teachers and Students: A Statistical and Historical Analysis of Women Amanda Gregory Historically, women have been denied an education comparable to that available to men. Since women have been allowed into institutions of higher learning, they have been studying and earning physics degrees. The aim of this poster is to discuss the statistical relationship between the number of women enrolled in university physics programs and the number of female physics faculty members. Special care has been given to examining the statistical data in the context of the social climate at the time that these women were teaching or pursuing their education. [Preview Abstract] |
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H1.00003: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Jessica Montalvo Born in 1910 in Cairo, Egypt, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin would later be known as the third woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her research on the structure of vitamin B-12. Her X-ray crystallography work also included discovering the molecular structure of penicillin and insulin. Dr. Hodgkin's work has aided in determining the structures of molecules for others to expand the technology necessary for today's medicine. [Preview Abstract] |
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H1.00004: Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin Antony Braden, Adelso Contreras This project will briefly tell the story of one of the 20$^{th}$ century's most prominent astronomers, who through perseverance triumphed at the center of astrophysics. It also tells the story of the rough times in which Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin lived in as women then were held to much lower standards than they are today and endured unjust conditions. It also provides an analysis of the evolution of the astrophysics of stellar composition over a lengthy and prosperous career. [Preview Abstract] |
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H1.00005: Dr. Yvonne Pendleton: A Prestigious Role Model of the 21st Century Gustavo Flores, Hilary Prado This project embodies the progression of Dr. Yvonne Pendleton through the beginnings of her fascination with science, her achievements in astrophysics, and contributions to scientific communities as a whole. As a woman of authority in a male-dominated field of study, Dr. Yvonne Pendleton has challenged the misconception that society attains of women in physics. As Senior Advisor for Research and Analysis for NASA, she recently investigated the organic component of the interstellar medium and the incorporation of that material into the early solar nebula. Through various obstacles, she continues to devote much of her free time to the encouragement of students at the high school, collegiate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. [Preview Abstract] |
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H1.00006: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Melanie Sandoval This project explores how the life of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a British astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first four pulsars. Her discovery was given credit to Antony Hewish, her thesis supervisor; Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize without the inclusion of Burnell as a co recipient. The complexity of pulsars will be addressed through schematic views as well as exemplars including the cycles in which the pulsars go through. Burnell's understanding of rapid set pulses occurring at regular intervals and position of unusual radio sources with respect to the stars was considered the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. [Preview Abstract] |
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H1.00007: Read Between the Lines Lynny Moore When viewing it is best to have another person standing behind you reading the list of names of some of the women in the physical sciences that are placed ``between the lines''. It creates a profound contrast to the written words of the author of the letter, Robert A. Millikan. My mother-in-law, Dr. Isabelle Ganz, said she attended a physics conference during her freshman year of college at the University of Rochester and personally ``waited'' on Robert Oppenheimer. She noted that there were no women present. They were most likely in the lab. [Preview Abstract] |
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