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Vera Kistiakowsky (9 September 1928 – 11 December 2021) was an American research physicist, teacher, and arms control activist. She was professor emerita at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the physics department and Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and was an activist for women's participation in the sciences.
30 de dez. de 2021 · Vera Kistiakowsky, Emerita Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), died peacefully at her home on December 11, 2021. She was 93. Vera was an...
27 de out. de 2022 · Prof. Vera Kistiakowsky passed away on December 11, 2021 at the age of 93. Dr. Kistiakowsky was the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at MIT (1972).
Prof. Vera Kistiakowsky passed away on December 11, 2021 at the age of 93. Dr. Kistiakowsky was the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at MIT (1972).
Kistiakowsky had won the bet: the Trinity test had succeeded. When news of the Hiroshima bombing broke three weeks later on August 6, 1945, Vera finally learned what her father had been working on. “There was not a party after Hiroshima,” says Vera.
Vera Kistiakowsky is an American physicist and the daughter of physical chemist George Kistiakowsky, who directed the Explosives Division at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s science advisor.
11 de dez. de 2021 · Vera Kistiakowsky, Emerita Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), died peacefully at her home on December 11, 2021. She was 93. Vera was an adventurous woman ahead of her time. She was a physicist who studied elementary particles and the light from distant stars.
