Sarah Frances Whiting: A foremother of American women physicists

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Nov 2005

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 73, Issue 11, pp. 1009-1013 (2005).

Physics

Education, Biographies, Tributes, Personal Notes, And Obituaries

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Sarah Frances Whiting taught physics and astronomy at Wellesley College from 1876 to 1916 and developed the first physics laboratory classes for female students. She was elected a fellow of AAAS in 1883 and received an honorary D. Sc. from Tufts University in 1905. I review her accomplishments and discuss some of the barriers that she had to overcome.

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