Nuclear Women In History
Celebrating Influential Women Who Made A Positive Impact On The Nuclear Industry
Women's History Month is celebrated during the month of March every year. Women's History Month 2023 is themed around "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories."
Influential Nuclear Women In History
Below we celebrate some of the most influential women in history that positively impacted the nuclear industry.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who made pioneering contributions to the field of radioactivity.
She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields (Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911).
Her work was foundational for the development of nuclear physics and the discovery of new radioactive elements.
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, which is the process by which the nucleus of an atom is split into two or more smaller nuclei.
She played a critical role in discovering and understanding this process but was not awarded the…
