Nina Byers,
Professor of Physics, UCLA
November 14 , 4:30pm
Barus and Holley 166

"Einstein and Women"

• Room 168
• Barus Holley Lobby

Some remarkable women were important in the history of physics during Albert Einstein's lifetime - physicist-mathematician and first wife Mileva Maric, second wife Elsa Einstein, the great mathematician Emmy Noether, nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, elementary particle experimental physicist Marietta Blau and others including of course Marie Curie. In his intellectual autobiography * Einstein said theoretical physics offered him an escape from ‘the merely personal'. Nevertheless this charismatic man loved, admired, assisted, and related in important ways to a number of women were breaching barriers which made female participation in science difficult. This talk will be about some of these women including detailed descriptions of contributions they made to physics.

* Albert Einstein, philosopher-scientist, P. A. Schilpp ed., Library of Living Philosophers Evanston, Ill. 1949.

http://www.physics2005.org/

There is limited seating!
Room 166 has 180 seats.
Room 168 has 150 seats.
The lobby will be standing room.