Black-and-white vintage photo of a woman in a plaid dress standing beside tall racks of electronic equipment, holding papers and adjusting a control knob on the front panel, surrounded by numerous dials, gauges, and switches. Carolyn B. Parker standing before a bank of testing instruments, taken at Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, ca 1945. courtesy Leslie Carolyn Edwards, appeared in Mickens, R. E., & Patterson, C. E. 2021, "Carolyn Beatrice Parker: A Life in Physics," History and Philosophy of Physics Newsletter, XV (College Park, MD: American Physical Society), 1, https://cdn.ymaws.com/nsbp.org/resource/resmgr/bhm-images/FHPP_Fall21.pdf
Carolyn Beatrice Parker (1917-1966)
#nuclearphysicist
BA Fisk 1938 #Physics
MA U Mich 1941 #Math
MS MIT 1953 Physics
WWII Dayton (part of Manhattan) project #scientist
1st African-American woman to earn Physics graduate degree
#WomeninSTEM #histsci #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #atomicphysics 🍎 🧪
