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<div class=""> Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day! It is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of women to our world. This year’s theme is “Better the balance, better the world” ( #BalanceforBetter ). You can find more at the following
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""> Our local departmental historian, Shelley Palmer, dug up a bit of history that may interest you. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: proximanova, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> T</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: proximanova, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">he
first woman PhD at OSU Physics was <b class="">Katherine M. Weimer</b>, who received her PhD in 1943. Her advisor was Prof. Marion Llewellyn Pool and her thesis was entitled "Artificial Radioactivity of Barium and Lanthanum." Katherine spent twenty-nine years
with the theory group at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: proximanova, Arial, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In
2001, the APS Division of Plasma Physics established the <b class="">Katherine E. Weimer Award
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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> An OSU woman led the way!</span></div>
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