Evans Hayward

Evans Hayward (February 17, 1922 – March 2, 2020) was an American physicist. She was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[1]

Life

She graduated in 1942 from Smith College, magna cum laude, and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD. From 1950 to 1990, she worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[2] She won a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3] Measurements of photoatomic cross-sections and magnetic resonances were among her contribution to physics.

Death

Evans Hayward died March 2, 2020, in Chevy Chase, Maryland from heart disease.[4]

gollark: On the plus side, my code makes a slightly incorrect image way faster than the Haskell code makes a correct one.
gollark: No.
gollark: The haskell version uses *floats*, if you can believe that.
gollark: <@!319753218592866315> Fix the code in a way which will *not* entirely kill performance.
gollark: Wonderful.

References
  1. Who's who in Government - Volume 3. Marquis Who's Who, LLC. 1977. p. 263. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. "Evans Hayward". CWP. UCLA. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  3. "Evans Hayward". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  4. "Evans Hayward, physicist". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 July 2020.


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