There is a famous photograph of the Solvay Physics Conference in 1911 showing Marie Curie as the only woman among 23 men. She had won the Nobel Prize eight years before; her husband Pierre Curie insisted that she share it since she had done the work and discovered radium. For the next 100 years only one woman was to win that prize although many deserved it. Professor Michael Albrow shall tell stories of several great but not well-known women physicists and astronomers in history. Today less than 24% of Ph.D. physicists and astronomers are women - why is that? Why should men have all the fun? Girls, we need your talent! 

Professor Michael Albrow is a scientist emeritus at Fermilab near Chicago. Albrow received his Ph.D. from Manchester University in 1969. He was a postdoc at CERN, Geneva from 1969 to 1975. He held a position at the Rutherford Laboratory (UK) from 1976 to 1989 and was a professor at Stockholm University from 1989 to 1991. He joined Fermilab near Chicago in 1991 and became a member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2006. He was a member of the teams that in 1995 discovered the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, and the Higgs Boson in 2012. Albrow is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for a long interest in science outreach.” Current interests are science writing, and science with art and with music. Learn more here: michaelalbrow.com

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