Out of the shadows: contributions of twentieth-century women to physics

1. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) : the electric arc (early plasma physics) and the formation of sand ripples at the seashore / Joan Mason

2. Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-194) : acoustics, electrolytes and physics education of women / Margaret Eliza Maltby

3. Agnes Pockels (1862-1935) : earliest investigations of surface physics / Gary A. Williams

4. Marie Curie (1867-1934) : natural radioactivity / Abraham Pais

5. Henriettta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) : period-luminosity relation in Cepheid variables stars and measurement of intergalactic distances / Jean L. Turner

6. Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) : radioactive nuclear recoil / C. W. Wong

7. Lise Meitner (1878-1968) : nuclear fission, beta decay and discovery of the neutrino / Ruth Lewin Sime

8. Emmy Noether (1882-1935) : symmetries and conservation laws in physics including energy conservation in relativity theory; modern algebra / Nina Byers

9. Inge Lehman (1888-1993) : inner (solid) core of the earth; also other important geophysical discoveries / Bruce A. Bolt

10. Marietta Blau (1894-1970) : photographic method of studying particle tracks (nuclear emulsions) / Leopold Halpern and Maurice M. Shapiro

11. Hertha Sponer (1895-1968) : application of modern quantum mechanics to atomic and molecular physics / Helmut Rechenberg

12. Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) : artificial radioactivity / Helene Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Radvanyi

13. Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) : monolayers and non-reflecting films / Gary A. Williams

14. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) : chemical composition of stars and of interstellar space / Vera C. Rubin

15. Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) : chaos theory / Freeman J. Dyson

16. Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903-1999) : many-electron atoms and mathematical physics / Ruth M. Williams

17. Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) : molecular structure of benzene; advances in X-ray crystallography / Judith Milledge

18. Maria Goepert Mayer (1906-1972) : nuclear shell model / Steven A. Moszkowski

19. Helen Dick Megaw [1907-2002] : structure of ice; advances in X-ray crystallography / A. Michael Glazer and Christine Kelsey

20. Yvette Cauchois (1908-1999) : bent crystal spectrometer / Christiane Bonnelle

21. Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975) : completion of the periodic table with the discovery of francium / Jean-Pierre Adolff and George B. Kauffman

22. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) : structure of large biomolecules - insulin, penicillin, vitamin B[subscript 12] and others / Jenny P. Glusker

23. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911-1998) : nuclear physics / Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

24. Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) : parity violation in nuclear physics / Noemie Benczer-Koller

25. Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (1919-) : astrophysics / Virginia Trimble

26. Phyllis StCyr Freier (1921-1992) : cosmic ray studies / Cecil J. Waddington

27. Rosalyn Susman Yalow (1921-) : radioactive immunoassay / M. S. Dresselhaus and F. A. Stahl

28. Esther Conwell (1922-) : electrical conductivity and diffusion in solids / Lewis Rothberg

29. Cecile DeWitt-Morette (1922-) : mathematical aspects of quantum field theory / Bryce Dewitt

30. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-) : mathematical aspects of the general theory of relativity / James W. York, Jr.

31. Vera Cooper Rubin : dark matter / Robert J. Rubin

32. Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus (1930-) : carbon compounds; condensed matter physics / G. Dresselhaus and F. A. Stahl

33. Myriam P. Sarachik (1933-) : metal-insulator transition; condensed matter physics / Jonathan R. Friedman

34. Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933-) : particle physics experiments / Paolo Franzini

35. Helen Thom Edwards (1936-) : constructions of very high energy particle beams and colliders / John Peoples, Jr.

36. Mary Katharine Gaillard (1939-) : elementary particle theory leading to the Standard Model / Andrzej J. Buras

37. Renata Kallosh (1943-) : string theory / Andrei Linde and Michael Gutperle

38. Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) : radioastronomy and discovery of pulsars / Ferdinand V. Coroniti and Gary A. Williams

39. Gail Hanson (1947-) : quark jets and particle physics experiments at very high energies / David G. Cassel

40. Sau Lan Wu : high energy particle physics experimentation; gluon production and QCD studies / David B. Cline.