Lucy Wilson
American physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lucy Wilson was an American physicist, known for her research on theories of vision, optics and X-ray spectroscopy. She was also the first dean of students at Wellesley College. Biography She was born October 19, 1888, in Bloomington, Illinois, the daughter of Lucy Barron White and John James Speed Wilson Jr. Her father worked for American Telephone and Telegraph in Chicago as did his father and her younger brother. Her younger brother had begun to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology two years after Lucy Wilson had entered Wellesley. Wilson not only studied the sciences but also had an interest in languages, especially German, which she studied in high school. Older members of her family had also attended higher education. For instance her grandfather had attended Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School and her mother attended Houghton Seminary in Clinton. Wilson's aunt was one of the early women graduates of Oberlin College and taught history. When Wilson was about 2, her father died and her mother took the young Lucy and her baby brother to live with their grandparents in Bloomington. Wilson and her family were Episcopalian. Wilson began attending Wellesley College in 1905, and attributed her choice of schooling to her high school mathematics teacher, Miss Ethel Cobb, also a Wellesley graduate .
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