Isabelle Stone

Isabelle Stone
Born 1868
Died 1944
Thesis On the Electrical Resistance of Thin Films (1897)

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. ↑
  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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