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Women in Science Through the Decades CERN Courier March 2011 International Women’s Day Women in science through the decades To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first International Women’s Day, we look at the crucial role that women have played in nuclear and particle physics during the past century. Our story begins in 1911, with the first International Women’s Day celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. That same year, Marie Skłodowska-Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of two new elements: radium and polonium. This was the second time that she had been called to Stockholm – eight years earlier, she received the Nobel Prize in Physics, which she and her husband Pierre Curie shared with Henri Becquerel for their research on radioactivity. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has only been awarded to three other women: Curie’s The Solvay Conference, 1911. Marie Curie, seated second from daughter Irène Joliot-Curie in 1935, Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin the right, was the only woman to attend the first international in 1964 and Ada Yonath in 2009. The only other woman to receive physics conference in Brussels. (Image credit: Photographie the Nobel Prize in Physics is Maria Goeppert Mayer for her work Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, on the structure of atomic nuclei (1963). courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.) Marie Curie achieved several “firsts”. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize (in 1903), the first person to receive it appointed professor in Mexico City after the war. She was nomi- twice, the first female professor at the University of Paris and, as nated for the Nobel Prize several times. the photograph on this page shows, the only female among the Nella Mortara (1893–1988), one of the most beloved assistant pro- 24 participants at the first international physics conference – the fessors of physics at the University of Rome in the late 1930s, faced Solvay Conference – held in Brussels in 1911. A century later, a similar ordeal and was expelled for being Jewish. She escaped the situation has changed. At the recent International Conference to Brazil but returned secretly during the war to be re united with on High-Energy Physics, ICHEP2010 (CERN Courier November her family in Rome, living in great danger. After the war Mortara 2010 p19), 15.4% of the participants were women. was reappointed as a professor, to the great joy of her students, Nuclear physics pioneers many of whom were women. The 1940s and 1950s were exciting years in physics. The first accel- Meitner was Lise Meitner (1878–1968) erators were being built, and with them physicists took the first “allowed” by also suffered from this double steps towards the current understanding of particle physics. At this Max Planck to discrimination. She became challenging time after the Second World War, many women joined the second woman to obtain a physics groups around the world and helped to open doors for the attend his lectures PhD from Vienna in 1903. She future generations of women in science. moved to Berlin where she was Marietta Blau (1894–1970) pioneered work in photographic “allowed” by Max Planck to attend his lectures – the first woman methods to study particle tracks and was the first to use nuclear to be granted this privilege – and then later became his assistant. emulsions to detect neutrons by observing recoil protons. Her Many believe that Meitner should have been co-awarded the Nobel request for a better position at Vienna University was rejected Prize in Chemistry with Otto Hahn in 1944 for the discovery of s because she was a woman and a Jew. Blau left Austria and was nuclear fission. She had the courage to refuse to work on the 33 CCMar11-WOMEN.indd 33 09/02/2011 16:48 CERN Courier March 2011 International Women’s Day Hildred Blewett in the control room of the Maria Fidecaro at the Proton Synchrotron at the start-up in synchrocyclotron in Liverpool in November 1959, with (left to right): John A typical CERN scene from the 1960s of 1955 with colleagues Alec Adams, Hans Geibel, Chris Schmelzer, Lloyd women scanners hard at work on projection Merrison and Alan Wetherell. Smith, Wolfgang Schnell and Pierre Germain. and measuring machines. Manhattan Project, saying: “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!” organization such as that which exists today. Women were initially Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906–1972) lectured at prestigious uni- recruited in supportive administrative positions, but this changed versities, published numerous papers on quantum mechanics and as they began to enter all areas of university training, physics and chemical physics, and collaborated with her husband on an impor- technical professions. CERN was willing to provide and encour- tant textbook. Despite her accomplishments, antinepotism rules age working opportunities for women, which they needed to be forbade Mayer from receiving an official post and for many years able to flourish in these new areas. she taught physics at universities as an unpaid volunteer. Finally, in Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, dozens of women worked 1959, four years before receiving the Nobel Prize, the University of at CERN and elsewhere as scanners. Their job consisted of find- California at San Diego offered her a full-time position. ing interesting events among the many tracks left by particles in Leona Marshall Libby (1919–1986) was an innovative developer bubble chambers and captured on photographs. Madeleine Znoy of nuclear technology. She built the tools that led to the discovery recalls how tedious it was: “Initially, the work was done manually, of cold neutrons and she also investigated isotope ratios. Libby was using a pencil and a sheet of paper to note down the co-ordinates the first woman to be part of Enrico Fermi’s team for the Manhattan where the interactions had taken place. Scanning took place round Project and eventually became professor of physics at that institu- the clock, because the quantity tion, leaving a legacy of exploration and innovation. of films to be scanned was enor- Closer to particle physics, Hildred Blewett (1911–2004) was Initially, women mous. From 7 am to 10.00 p.m., an accelerator physicist from Brookhaven. In the early 1950s she female scanners studied the contributed to the design of CERN’s first high-energy accelerator, were recruited films, and from 10.00 p.m. until the Proton Synchrotron, while also working on a similar machine in supportive 7.00 a.m., men (often students) proposed for Brookhaven (CERN Courier November 2009 p19). administrative took over,” she explains. Each Maria Fidecaro has spent her life dedicated to her research at shift lasted only four hours due CERN, where she still works. She arrived at CERN in 1956 after positions, but this to the work being so strenuous, working in Rome on cosmic-ray experiments and, for a year, at the changed. working in complete darkness synchrocyclotron in Liverpool. Maria remembers fondly what it with three projectors illuminat- was like to be a physics student just after the war, the challenges of ing the film. Znoy once beat a balancing a career with family and collaborating with other pio- record, scanning more than 750 photographs in one day. “At first, neers of modern physics from all over the world, including many some physicists thought that this was impossible, that surely I had women. “I remained dedicated to research throughout the chang- missed interesting events. But all was fine and they were very ing circumstances,” she says, “and always to the best of my ability.” surprised!” These are just a few of the women physicists who were around Anita Bjorkebo started as a scanner in 1965. After her scanning during the mid-20th century; courageous women dedicated to their shift she compiled data and classified events, all by hand, and even science, they served as role models for later generations. made the histograms. Later, as scanning became more automated, the scanners moved Women and the growth of CERN on to operating the computers connected to the measuring equip- CERN was founded in 1954 during the post-war period of renewal. ment. Some, including Bjorkebo and Znoy, would set them up for The CERN Convention was very modern because it mentioned all other scanners or streamline the operation for new experiments. of the professional categories needed to form a large international Bjorkebo became so interested in her work that she signed up for 34 CCMar11-WOMEN.indd 34 09/02/2011 16:48 CERN Courier March 2011 International Women’s Day Many women scientists and engineers are working at CERN on the LHC and its experiments, as seen in these photos taken to celebrate International Women’s Day in March 2010. Left: in the control room of LHCb. Right: in the CERN Control Centre. two particle-physics classes, attending lectures and doing home- really see the particles. I really enjoyed working with the physi- work after work. “A Swedish physicist only had fi ve students here cists and technicians, and collaborating with other laboratories. so he invited the technical staff to join in,” she explains. We were young and full of enthusiasm. It was a great period.” Even though these women did not get their names on publica- Nevertheless, after more than 50 years, the situation for women tions, they felt appreciated. “We were part of the team, we had at CERN could still be improved, especially in the intermediate ▲ a role to play,” says Znoy proudly. “With the scanning, we could administrative categories where they are most represented. 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