Physics

NIST: United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ana Maria Rey

Columbian physicist and professor, who worked on the development of the atomic clock.

Location: USA

Timeline:

1976/77 - born

1999 - graduate Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá in physics

2000 - emigrated to America

2004 - Ph.D from University of Maryland

2004-05 - postdoctoral researcher at NIST

2005-08 - postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard University

2008 - JILA associate fellow

2008 - joined University of Colorado Boulder

2012 - JILA fellow

2013 - MacArthur fellowship

2013 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

2014 - Early Career National Hispanic Scientist of the Year

2014 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society

2017 - professor at the University of Colorado Boulder

2019 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (first Hispanic woman to win)

Details:

  • Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder

  • JILA fellow

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fellow

  • American Physical Society fellow

  • Worked on the development of the atomic clock

References:

United States Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein


American physicist known for research into dark matter and working in the NASA STROBE-X Probe Concept Study.

Location: USA

Timeline:

Details:

  • Only 83 Black women have achieved a Ph.D in physics in America (note that 1700 physics Ph.Ds are awarded per year)

  • Identifies as queer and agender

  • Only Black woman in the physics department at MIT

  • Columnist at New Scientist and Physics World

  • Convenor for Dark Matter: Cosmic Probes

  • Worked on NASA STROBE-X Probe Concept Study

  • Wrote the book “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred”

  • Won the 2021 American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award recipient

  • Won of Nature’s 10 people who helped shape science

  • 2017 LGBT+ Physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award

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