Isabelle Stone

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.

Isabelle Stone
Born1868
Died1944

Biography

Stone was born in 1868 to Harriet and Leander Stone in Chicago.[2] She attended Wellesley 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]

Publications
gollark: Why did dan200 think it was a good idea to make `shell` do require and packagey stuff?!
gollark: Ah, it seems that it has a `package.path` thing somewhere.
gollark: Please hold on while I dredge through æons of weird CC code.
gollark: I know how the shell path bit works, just not the require bit.
gollark: I basically want to make the shell run programs from `/bin` and `require` use `/lib` without the hacks potatOS employs.

See also

References
  1. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. 2. Taylor & Francis. p. 1241. ISBN 978-0415920407. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  2. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie (1990). Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century. MIT Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0262650380. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  3. Richard Staley (2008). Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution. University of Chicago Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0226770574. 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 978-0521071062. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  6. "Stone, Dr. Isabelle". American Men of Science. New York: The Science Press. 1910. p. 455.


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