Laird, Elizabeth Rebecca, 1874-1969
Elizabeth Rebecca Laird autobiography, circa 1960.
The document covers Laird's early background and education; her fellowship and studies at Bryn Mawr College and the Technische UniversittĖ Berlin; assistantship in physics at Mount Holyoke College; radiation work at Cavendish Laboratory; work on charged particle beams, reflections of soft x-rays, and Raman effect; work during World War II for the Canadian National Research Council; appointment to faculty of University of Western Ontario; work for Ontario Cancer Research Foundation on short wave region (radiation) for medical use; outstanding students; fellow contemporary women physicists; and honors. File also includes an appendix of letters from Laird to her sister written in Berlin (1898-1899), and notes on a Berlin colloquium.
Laird, Elizabeth Rebecca, 1874-1969
Bryn Mawr College -- Students.
Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England) -- Research.
Mount Holyoke College -- Faculty.
Technische UniversittĖ Berlin -- Graduate students.
University of Western Ontario -- Faculty.
Cancer -- Radiotherapy -- Research.
Gamma rays -- Therapeutic use -- Research.
Grenz rays -- Research.
Infrared radiation in medicine -- Research.
Medical physics.
Particle beams.
Physics -- Congresses -- Germany -- Berlin.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- Germany -- 19th century.
Physics -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Radiation -- Research.
Raman effect.
Women physicists -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- Canada.
X-rays
Women in science
Questionnaires aat
Women physicists. lcsh
Berlin Colloquium in Physics.
Canadian National Research Council.
National Research Council of Canada.
Ontario Cancer Research Foundation -- Research.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA