Isabelle Stone

Isabelle Stone
Born 1868
Died 1944

Isabelle Stone (1868–1944) was an American physicist and one of the founders of the American Physical Society.[1] She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics in the United States.

Biography

Stone was born in 1868 to Harriet and Leander Stone in Chicago.[2] She attended Vassar College and Columbia University from which she received her degrees, and taught at Bryn Mawr School and Vassar College.[1] She was the first woman to gain a PhD in physics the United States and did so at the University of Chicago.[3]

Stone was, out of a total of 836, one of two women who attended the first International Congress of Physics in Paris (the other being Marie Curie).[3]

The exact date of her death is unknown.[4]

Research

Stone's research was on the electrical resistance and other properties of thin films.[1] Her thesis, On the Electrical Resistance of Thin Films, showed that very thin metal films showed a higher resistivity than the bulk metal.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. 2. Taylor & Francis. p. 1241. ISBN 041592040X. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie (1990). Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century. MIT Press. p. 186. ISBN 026265038X. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  3. 1 2 Richard Staley (2008). Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution. University of Chicago Press. p. 168. ISBN 0226770575. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "CWP at physics.UCLA.edu // Isabelle Stone". cwp.library.ucla.edu.
  5. ↑ John M. Ziman (1969). The Physics of Metals, Volume 1. CUP Archive. p. 176. ISBN 0521071062. Retrieved 6 April 2014.


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