William Duane's co-worker was the first female professor at which university?
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William Duane (physicist) William Duane (February 17, 1872, at Philadelphia – March 7, 1935, in Devon, Pennsylvania) was an American physicist. A coworker of Marie Curie, he developed a method for generating quantities of radon in the laboratory.
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Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie ( ; ] ; ] ; 7 November 18674 July 1934; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; ] ) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
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Agnes Headlam-Morley Agnes Headlam-Morley (10 December 1902 – 21 February 1986) was a British historian and academic. From 1948 to 1971, she was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Upon her appointment in October 1948, she became the first woman to be appointed to a chair at Oxford.
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Rosemary Cramp Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp, (born 6 May 1929) is a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.
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Heather A. Williams Heather A. Williams is Presidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Duane Arnold Duane Wade Hampton Arnold (born 5 August 1953) is an American priest and academic. He was born 1953 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. From 1994 to 1997, he was Principal of St Chad's College, Durham University.
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Johanna Westerdijk Johanna "Hans" Westerdijk (] ; 4 January 1883 – 15 November 1961) was a Dutch plant pathologist and the first female professor in the Netherlands.
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James Duane (professor) James Joseph Duane (born July 30, 1959) is an American law professor at the Regent University School of Law, former criminal defense attorney, and Fifth Amendment expert. He received some viral online attention for his "Don't Talk To Police" video of a lecture he gave to a group of law students with Virginia Beach Police Department Officer George Bruch. They explain in practical terms why citizens should never talk to police under any circumstances. The lecture continues to be popular on YouTube and received support from security expert Bruce Schneier. By November 2014 the official release of the video had received over 37,000 views, but this copy of it has gone viral over the years, with over six million views (as of July 2016).
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Christine Lee (academic) Christine Lee is an English medical researcher. She is Emeritus Professor of Haemophilia at the University of London, and founding Editor of "Haemophilia". She trained in medicine at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded First Class Honours and was the first female scholar of the University of Oxford Medical School. She was awarded a Doctorate of Science (Medicine) by the University of London in 1996.
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Rebecca Pennell Rebecca Mann Pennell, later Rebecca Mann Dean (1821-1890) was an American educator, niece of prominent educator Horace Mann, and the first woman to be appointed a full faculty member at an American college. She was one of the ten founding professors of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she taught physical geography, drawing, natural history, civil history, and didactics. Pennell was the first female college professor who received the same rank and pay as her male colleagues and attended faculty meetings. Part of Pennell's salary was a home on campus, which still stands and is named for Pennell, as is a hall in one of Antioch College's dormitory buildings.
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Alberta Jones Seaton Alberta Jones Seaton (1924–2014) was one of the first African-American women awarded a doctorate in zoology, in Belgium in 1949. She then moved to East Africa, where she and her husband became involved in African independence movements and she developed an academic career. Her husband, Earle Seaton, was an international lawyer and then jurist in several countries. Alberta Seaton later moved with her husband to Bermuda and the Seychelles, continuing to pursue an academic career. Alberta Seaton specialized in embryology, studying biological processes in the eggs of several species across her career, including early studies in morphogenesis. Born in Houston, she became a longterm professor of biology at Texas Southern University (TSU), where she also served as first chair of the Faculty Assembly and director of freshman studies. Seaton had two children, born in Kenya and Tanganyika. She died in Houston in 2014.
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Dana H. Born Dana H. Born (born 1961) is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and was the Dean of the Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the first woman to hold that position.
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Thyrsa Frazier Svager Thyrsa Anne Frazier Svager (June 16, 1930 – July 23, 1999) was an American academic who was one of the first African-American women to gain a PhD in mathematics. Born in Ohio, she graduated from high school at the age of 16, going to Antioch College in Ohio and then doing her postgraduate degrees at Ohio State University. Frazier Svager was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Central State University (CSU) in Ohio for decades, ending her academic career as provost and dean for academic affairs. She and her husband, physics professor Aleksandar Svager, invested one of their salaries during their careers to build a legacy for scholarships. After her death, the Thyrsa Frazier Svager Fund was established to provide scholarships for African-American women majoring in mathematics.
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Gillian Gehring Gillian Anne Gehring OBE (born Gillian Anne Murray on 19 May 1941) is a British academic, and former Professor of Physics. She was the second female in the UK to become a Professor of Physics.
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Alice Dewey Alice Greeley Dewey (1928 – June 11, 2017) was an American anthropologist who studied Javanese society. She was a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1962 until her retirement in 2005. Among her doctoral students was Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barack Obama.
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Carol Espy-Wilson Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson is an electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987, becoming the first African-American woman to earn this degree from MIT.
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Annie Heloise Abel Annie Heloise Abel was one of the first thirty women in the United States to earn a PhD in history. One of the ablest historians of her day, she was an acknowledged expert on the history of British and American policy toward natives. As another historian has put it: "She was the first academically trained historian in the United States to consider the development of Indian-white relations and, although her focus was narrowly political and her methodology almost entirely archival-based, in this she was a pioneer." Historians consider her most important work to be the three-volume "The Slave Holding Indians". She studied British policy toward natives throughout the British Empire, not just in the new world.
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Dorothy Schwieder Dorothy Schwieder (November 28, 1933 – August 13, 2014) was an American historian, biographer, and academic. She joined the faculty of Iowa State University in 1966, becoming the first woman to be appointed as a professor in the Department of History. Schwieder authored a memoir and biography the late U.S. Senator George McGovern, her former college professor. A native of South Dakota, much of her research and writings focused on the history of Iowa, including the state's Amish communities.
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Edith Marion Patch Edith Marion Patch (1876–1954) was an American entomologist and writer. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she received a degree from the University of Minnesota in 1901 and originally embarked on a career as an English teacher before receiving the opportunity to organize the entomology department at the University of Maine. She became the head of the entomology department in 1904, despite misgivings from several male colleagues about having a female department head, and she remained in this post until her 1937 retirement.Edith Patch is recognized as the first truly successful professional woman entomologist in the United States.
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Susan Hurley Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 – August 16, 2007) was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in 1994, professor of philosophy at Bristol University from 2006 and the first woman fellow of All Souls, Oxford. She wrote on practical philosophy as well as on philosophy of mind, bringing these disciplines closer together. Her work draws on sources from the social sciences as well as the neurosciences, and can be broadly characterised as both naturalistic and interdisciplinary.
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Bonnie Thornton Dill Bonnie Thorton Dill (b. 1943) is an African-American, feminist scholar, and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. Born in Chicago, Dill has been influenced by her education at the University of Chicago Lab School as the basis for her understanding of Sociology and Intersectionality.
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Duane H. Cooper Duane H. Cooper (1923 in Gibson City-Illinois – April 4, 1995) was a physicist, who made early investigations regarding