STEM Girls: Mildred Dresselhaus

Mildred Dresselhaus was born in Brooklyn on November 11, 1930. The daughter of Eastern European immigrants, the only career option that was seriously presented to her through the New York school system was that of school teacher. She did ultimately end up in...

STEM Girls: Chien Shiung Wu

Chien Shiung Wu was born in 1912 in Liu Ho, China. She began her education at her parents’ school, but then was sent to boarding school in Suzhou in 1922. She graduated at the top of her class in 1930 and went on to study at the National Central University of...

STEM Girls: Emmy Noether

It was Emmy Noether’s intent to teach French and English, but instead she chose to audit math classes at the University of Erlangen in Germany (where her father was a mathematics professor). She earned her Ph.D in 1907, and spent the next seven years teaching at...

So you want to be an Astrophysicist

http://www.iau.org/public/themes/careers/ Astrophysicists study how stars, planets, galaxies, and other celestial objects work and interact with each other. Their research provides information on how the universe works. Although astrophysicists deal specifically with...

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