Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Physics major Ana Lyons has creating posters of influential Black physicists in response to the recent plan of action agenda item to "raise the visibility of Black voices both in the Physics Department and in the field as a whole." Her motivation for making these posters was to contribute in some small way to that goal.
The first 6 are all non-current-working physicists, and the recently completed final 6 are current-working physicists. Each of these 8.5" x 11" posters can be downloaded at print-quality by clicking on the thumbnails below.
Read an interview with Ana Lyons about her work on the posters in the Berkeley Lab News.
Non-Current-Working Physicists
Willie Hobbs Moore: First black woman to earn a PhD in physics
Harry Lee Morrison: UC Berkeley Professor of Theoretical Physics
Claudia Alexander: NASA Geophysicist and Project Manager
Elmer Samuel Imes: Internationally renowned experimentalist
Carolyn Parker: Manhattan Project physicist and mathematician
Edward Bouchet: First black man to earn a PhD in physics
Current-Working Physicists
Anya T. Arce, Professor of Physics, Duke University
Sylvester James Gates, Director of the Brown Theoretical Physics Center
Nadya Mason, Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
Nia Imara, Professor of Astronomy, UC Santa Cruz
Peter J. Delfyett, Professor of Optics, ECE, and Physics
Philip W. Phillips, Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
