Dresselhaus, M. S.
Oral history interview with Mildred S. Dresselhaus, 1976 June 7, 15, August 11, 19, September 13, 20, 22, 24, 30, and October 15.
Youth and education in New York City; Hunter College; Fulbright Fellowship to University of Cambridge, 1951. Decision to pursue solid state physics; University of Chicago graduate school (Enrico Fermi), 1952; discussion of women students and faculty at Chicago; importance of teaching; thesis topic on superconductors. Postdoctoral work at Cornell University, 1958-1960; work at Lincoln Laboratory, 1960-1967. Birth of children and the effect on her work. To Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, 1967; on encouraging women students; funding research; active administrator; teaching, colleagues at MIT. Women in science in the late 1960s.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Cornell University
Hunter College.
Lincoln Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Chicago.
University of Cambridge.
Research -- Finance.
Science -- Administration.
Solid state physics.
Superconductors.
Women in science.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Transcripts. aat
Fulbright Scholarship.
City University of New York. Hunter College.
Sherkow, Shirlee. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA