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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Irène Joliot-Curie [10] and Dorothy Hodgkin [11] were also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics, but received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 and 1964, respectively. Lise Meitner is the female physicist the most nominated, 16 times for Physics and 14 times for Chemistry. [20]
Sabine Karin Doris Hossenfelder (born 18 September 1976) is a German theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, author, science communicator, and YouTuber.She is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology, and of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.
Lisa Randall HonFInstP (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. [1] Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the ...
The presentation of women as scientists on film goes back to the early days of cinema. The first known presentation may be 1929's Woman in the Moon. Written by Thea von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang, the film follows a group of Germans as they travel to the Moon. The group includes Friede Velten, an assistant on the trip, who chooses ...
Dorothea Leighton (1908–1989), American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology. Katharine Luomala (1907–1992), American anthropologist. Margaret McArthur (1919–2002), Australian anthropologist, nutritionist and educator. Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American physicists. It includes physicists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female physicists from the United States .
This is a list of women who have made significant contributions to the field of physics. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Physicists . It includes physicists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.