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List of the most influential female people in Physics,

#451

Janet Conrad

#94635

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Janet Marie Conrad is an American experimental physicist, researcher, and professor at MIT studying elementary particle physics. Her work focuses on neutrino properties and the techniques for studying them. In recognition of her efforts, Conrad has been the recipient of several highly prestigious awards during her career, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award.

#452

Tulika Bose

#102395

Overall Influence

Tulika Bose is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research focuses on developing triggers for experimental searches of new phenomena in high energy physics. Bose is a leader within the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, a CERN collaboration famous for its experimental observation of the Higgs boson in 2012.

#453

Anastasia Volovich

Anastasia Volovich

#78042

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Anastasia Volovich is a professor of physics at Brown University. She works on theoretical physics: quantum field theory, general relativity, string theory and related areas in mathematics. Early life and education Volovich was born in Moscow. She attended the Moscow State University for her undergraduate studies where she completed her master's degree in 1999. Volovich moved to the United States for her graduate studies and completed her doctorate under the supervision of Andrew Strominger at Harvard University in 2002.

#454

Belinda Wilkes

#88784

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

Belinda Jane Wilkes is a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and former director of the Chandra X-ray Center. Education and career She was born in Staffordshire, England and grew up in Albrighton, Shropshire, attending Wolverhampton Girls' High School before obtaining a BSc. in Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland followed by a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge, England. In 1982 she moved to the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory as a NATO postdoctoral fellow and in 1984 to SAO...

#455

Sheila Rowan

#72567

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Sheila Rowan is a Scottish physicist and academic, who is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and director of its Institute for Gravitational Research since 2009. She is known for her work in advancing the detection of gravitation waves. In 2016, Rowan was appointed the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government.

#456

Silke Bühler-Paschen

#40541

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Silke Bühler-Paschen is a German-Austrian solid-state physicist and has been professor for physics at TU Wien, Austria since 2005. Education Bühler-Paschen studied physics at Graz University of Technology and earned her diploma in 1992. In 1995 she earned her PhD with her thesis titled "Electron transport in polymer composites" at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

#457

Carole Mundell

#77754

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Carole Mundell is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the University of Bath. She is an observational astrophysicist who researches cosmic black holes and gamma ray bursts. „We are all natural born physicists."

#458

Pratibha Gai

#37121

Overall Influence

Dame Pratibha Laxman Gai-Boyes is a British microscopist and Professor and Chair of Electron Microscopy and former Director at The York JEOL Nanocentre, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of York. She created the atomic-resolution environmental transmission electron microscope and is an outspoken advocate for women with careers in science.

#459

Amanda Bauer

#82039

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Amanda Elaine Bauer is an American professional astronomer and science communicator. She is the Deputy Director and Head of Science and Education at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. She was previously based in Tucson, Arizona, working as Head of Education and Public Outreach at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. From 2013 to 2016 she was a Research Astronomer at the Australian Astronomical Observatory . Her principal field of research concerns how galaxies form, how they create new stars, and particularly why they suddenly stop creating new stars.

#460

Anna Watts

#85294

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Anna Louise Watts is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam. She studies neutron stars and their thermonuclear explosions. Education Watts was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School. She studied physics at Merton College, Oxford, and graduated with a first class degree from the University of Oxford in 1995. She entered the science stream at the Ministry of Defence on a graduate scheme, where she worked for five years. Watts completed her PhD in physics supervised by in the general relativity group researching neutron stars.

#461

Suzanne Staggs

#106228

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Suzanne T. Staggs is an American physicist who is currently the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Staggs has led the development of numerous cosmic microwave background experiments and is currently the principal investigator of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and founding member of the Simons Observatory . In 2020, Staggs was elected into the National Academy of Sciences.

#462

Harriet Dinerstein

#104857

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Harriet Dinerstein is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1985. She also received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in 1989. Dinerstein received her Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980. She currently is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.

#463

Emma Bunce

#94530

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Emma J. Bunce is a British space physicist and Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics at the University of Leicester. She holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Her research is on the magnetospheres of Saturn and Jupiter. She is principal investigator of the MIXS instrument on BepiColombo, was deputy lead on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer proposal, and co-investigator on the Cassini–Huygens mission.

#464

Nadine G. Barlow

Nadine G. Barlow

#76907

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Nadine G. Barlow was an American planetary scientist. She was a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern Arizona University . She became Associate Chair of the NAU Department of Physics and Astronomy in Fall 2010. She was also the director of the Northern Arizona University/NASA Space Grant Program and an associate director of the Arizona Space Grant Consortium.

#465

Louise Harra

#94479

Overall Influence

Louise Harra is a Northern Irish physicist, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She is the Director of the World Radiation Centre of the Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos and affiliated professor at the Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics of ETH Zurich.

#466

M. Cristina Marchetti

#103135

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Maria Cristina Marchetti is an Italian-born, American theoretical physicist specializing in statistical physics and condensed matter physics. In 2019, she received the Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the American Physical Society. She held the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Physics at Syracuse University, where she was the director of the Soft and Living Matter program, and chaired the department 2007–2010. She is currently Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

#467

Ruth Durrer

#97641

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Ruth Durrer is a professor of Cosmology at the University of Geneva. She works on the cosmic microwave background, brane cosmology and massive gravity. Early life and education Durrer was born in Kerns. She earned her high school diploma at Kantonales Lehrerseminar, and studied at the University of Zürich. She completed her PhD on perturbation theory with Norbert Straumann at the University of Zürich in 1988. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge for a year, before joining Princeton University in 1989. Durrer returned to Zürich in 1991, completing a postdoctoral fel...

#468

Helen Gleeson

#66701

Overall Influence

Helen Frances Gleeson OBE FInstP is a British physicist who specialises in soft matter and liquid crystals. She is Cavendish Professor and former Head of the School of Physics at the University of Leeds.

#469

Suchitra Sebastian

#62674

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Suchitra Sebastian is a condensed matter physicist at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. She is known for her discoveries of exotic quantum phenomena that emerge in complex materials. In particular, she is known for the discovery of unconventional insulating materials which display simultaneous conduction-like behaviour. In 2022 she was awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Foundation. She was named as one of thirty Exceptional Young Scientists by the World Economic Forum in 2013, one of The Next Big Names in Physics by the Financial Times in 2013, and spoke...

#470

Denise Stephens

Denise Stephens

#92125

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Denise C. Nuttall Stephens is an associate professor of astronomy in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University. Education and research experience Stephens graduated from Brigham Young University in 1996 as an undergraduate student with a degree in physics. She received her Master's and Ph.D. in Astronomy from New Mexico State University. She completed her a postgraduate program at the Space Telescope Science Institute and at Johns Hopkins University. She joined the faculty of BYU in 2007. She studies the atmosphere ...

#471

Mary Beth Monroe

#112184

Overall Influence

1947 - 2013 (66 years)

Mary Beth Todd Monroe was an American physics educator, the president-elect of the American Association of Physics Teachers and a professor of physics at Southwest Texas Junior College. Education and career Monroe majored in physics at Sam Houston State University, graduating in 1970. She became a secondary-school physics teacher while continuing to study laser science with Charles Manka at Sam Houston State, earning a master's degree in 1973.

#472

Marina Borovskaya

#24283

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Marina Aleksandrovna Borovskaya is a Russian economist and professor. She serves as Rector of Southern Federal University since 2012. She is President of the Council of Rectors of Southern Federal District, Vice-President of Russian Union of Rectors.

#473

Sarah Hörst

#61429

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Sarah Hörst is an associate professor of planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins University, who focuses on understanding planetary atmospheric hazes, in particular the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

#474

Sonia Contera

#32432

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Sonia Antoranz Contera is a Spanish physicist. She serves as Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Oxford, a senior fellow at the Oxford Martin School, and a senior research fellow at Green Templeton College.

#475

Christine Wilson

#112645

Overall Influence

Christine D. Wilson is a Canadian-American physicist and astronomer, currently a University Distinguished Professor at McMaster University. On August 5, 1986, Wilson discovered a comet, later named Comet Wilson after her, while analyzing photographic plates from the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory.

#476

Karine Danielyan

#68032

Overall Influence

1947 - 2022 (75 years)

Karine Danielyan , was an Armenian politician, biophysicist, and opinion journalist, who served as Minister of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia from 1991 to 1994. Her death was announced on Facebook on the 4th of April 2022 by her daughter.

#477

Rosemary Wyse

#92951

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Rosemary F. G. Wyse is a Scottish astrophysicist, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society , and Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Education Wyse graduated from Queen Mary University of London in 1977 with a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astrophysics and obtained her PhD in astrophysics in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 1983. Bernard Jones was her academic advisor.

#478

Jessie Christiansen

Jessie Christiansen

#72337

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jessie Christiansen is an Australian astrophysicist working at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology . She won the 2018 NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for her work on the Kepler planet sample.

#479

Christine Silberhorn

#45886

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Christine Silberhorn is a German physicist specialising in quantum optics, full professor at the Paderborn University. In 2011, Silberhorn was awarded the Leibniz Prize and was the youngest recipient of the 2.5 million Euro prize at that time.

#480

Lynnae Quick

#60562

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Lynnae C. Quick is an American planetary geophysicist and Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research centers on theoretical modeling of cryovolcanic processes on the icy moons and dwarf planets in the Solar System as well as modeling volcanic activity on Venus and the Moon. Quick is a member of the Dawn, Europa Clipper, and Dragonfly Mission science teams. She is also a member of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Toolbox for Research and Exploration team, and serves as co-chair of the Earth and Planetary Systems Sciences se...

#481

Mary Helen Wright Greuter

Mary Helen Wright Greuter

#63298

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Mary Helen Wright Greuter was an American astronomer and historian, who wrote and edited on the history and methodology of sciences, including anthropology, archeology, mathematics, and physics. Early years Born in Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of the geophysicist Frederick Eugene Wright and Kathleen Ethel Finley. She was known professionally by her family name of Wright. Her siblings included, William F. Wright and Kenneth A. Wright. Wright was educated at Madeira School. She was a Bennett Junior College graduate , and Vassar College graduate .

#482

Kristin Persson

#78738

Overall Influence

Kristin Aslaug Persson is a Swedish/Icelandic American physicist and chemist. She was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1971, to Eva Haettner-Aurelius and Einar Benedikt Olafsson. She is a faculty senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is also the director of the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the director and founder of the Materials Project, a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials.

#483

Mirjam Cvetič

#106131

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Mirjam Cvetič is a Slovenian-American theoretical physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics and of Mathematics. Her research includes the applications of string theory and M-theory to black hole behavior and particle phenomenology, and she has published highly cited works on supersymmetry.

#484

Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow

Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow

#43359

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow is Polish physicist and professor at the University of Warsaw. In 2005 and again in 2008 elected for the post of the rector of the University of Warsaw. Fellow and from 2008 Chairman of the Science Board in Collegium Invisibile.

#485

Cynthia Keppel

#80171

Overall Influence

Cynthia E. Keppel is the Hall A and C Leader at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Her research focuses on the quark-gluon structure of the nucleon, while also considering applications of nuclear physics in medicine. Previously, she was a founding member of the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute.

#486

Leanne Pitchford

#60163

Overall Influence

Leanne Carolyn Pitchford is a retired physicist known for her work on the numerical modeling of low-temperature plasma, and in the LXCat project for open exchange of low-temperature plasma data. Educated in the US, she worked in France as a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie at the University of Toulouse.

#487

Claudia Draxl

#68838

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Claudia Draxl is a physicist. She is a full professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin in theoretical condensed-matter physics. Life From 1978 to 1983, Draxl studied mathematics and physics at the University of Graz. She received her doctorate at the University of Graz in theoretical physics in 1987. She finished her habilitation at University of Graz in 1996. From 1996 to 1997, she was a lecturer at the University of Graz. From 1997 to 1998, she was an associate professor at the University of Graz. She was the director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Graz from 1999 to 2001, and the deputy director of the very same institute from 2001 to 2004.

#488

Vania Jordanova

#79688

Overall Influence

Vania Koleva Jordanova is a physicist known for her work on space weather and geomagnetic storms. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2021. Education and career Jordanova has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and started at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2006 as a technical staff member. Jordanova was the director for the Space Hazards Induced near Earth by Large Dynamic Storms project which examines hazards from space weather that can cause deleterious impacts on technology on Earth such as radio, television, and cellphones.

#489

Margaret MacVicar

#33964

Overall Influence

1943 - 1991 (48 years)

Margaret L.A. MacVicar was an American physicist and educator. In addition to serving as MIT's Dean of Undergraduate Education , MacVicar is credited with founding the now widely emulated Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in 1969. MacVicar received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT and joined the faculty, giving her the rare distinction of being a "MIT lifer."

#490

Aude Billard

#96575

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Aude G. Billard is a Swiss physicist in the fields of machine learning and human-robot interactions. As a full professor at the School of Engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne , Billard’s research focuses on applying machine learning to support robot learning through human guidance. Billard’s work on human-robot interactions has been recognized numerous times by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and she currently holds a leadership position on the executive committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society as the vice president of publicati...

#491

Joyanti Chutia

#75722

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Joyanti Chutia is an Indian physicist who specializes in solid-state physics and plasma physics. She was among the first women who have headed scientific institutions in India when she became the Director of the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology in Guwahati, Assam, which is the first major research institution in North East India. She is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences. She is an Emeritus Scientist at the Department of Science & Technology in the Government of India.

#492

Judith Gamora Cohen

#83691

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Judith Gamora Cohen , is an American astronomer and the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. She is a recognized expert regarding the Milky Way Galaxy, particularly with respect to the Galaxy's outer halo. She also played a key role in the design and construction of the Keck Telescope.

#493

Emily Rice

#81980

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Emily Rice is an astronomy professor at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. In addition to her scientific contributions to the study of the atmospheric properties of low mass astronomical bodies, she has become well known for her astronomy-related public outreach projects. She is the co-founder of the astro-centric fashion shop STARtorialist, a host for the public outreach series Astronomy on Tap, a parody video creator, and a current research associate for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She has appeared as a guest on the popular podcast StarTalk , and was a host for their spinoff show, StarTalk All-Stars.

#494

Rebecca Elson

#70918

Overall Influence

1960 - 1999 (39 years)

Rebecca Anne Wood Elson was a Canadian–American astronomer and writer. Early life and education Rebecca "Becky" Anne Wood Elson was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Jeanne Bridgman, née Hickey and John Albert Elson , a geologist and professor at McGill University. Her older sister, Sally was born in 1958. As a teenager Elson often travelled Canada with her geologist father as he performed field research.

#495

Daniela Bortoletto

Daniela Bortoletto

#96033

Overall Influence

Daniela Bortoletto is an Italian high energy physicist, head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She works in silicon detector development and was a co-discoverer of both the Higgs boson and the top quark.

#496

Kathrin Altwegg

#77644

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Kathrin Altwegg is an astrophysicist, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Space Research and Planetology, and former director of the at the University of Bern. She is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

#497

Cornelia Denz

#91229

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Cornelia Denz is a German Professor of Physics at the University of Münster. She works in nonlinear optics and nanophotonics, and is a Fellow of The Optical Society and The European Optical Society.

#498

Elizabeth Lada

#81794

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Elizabeth Lada is an American astronomer whose self-described research interests include "understanding the origin, properties, evolution and fate of young embedded clusters within molecular clouds".

#499

Shirley Ho

#93110

Overall Influence

Shirley Ho is an American astrophysicist and machine learning expert, currently at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at Flatiron Institute in NYC and at the New York University and the Carnegie Mellon University. Ho also has visiting appointment at Princeton University.

#500

Merle Gold

#89334

Overall Influence

1921 - 2017 (96 years)

Merle Eleanor Gold was an American astrophysicist, best known for her study of the Sun with Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Early life and education Merle Gold was born on 7 March 1921 and grew up in Rochester, Minnesota to Nathaniel and Eleanor Tuberg. She graduated high school in 1939 as Valedictorian of her class. She trained as a medical secretary at Mayo Clinic for two years before undertaking her undergraduate degree at University of Chicago. After graduating, she went on to complete her PhD in astrophysics under Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar at Yerkes Observatory. Her thesis w...

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