Women in Nuclear
# Women in Nuclear
Women have made substantial contributions to chemistry, physics and nuclear science from the earliest days of exploration of radiation through to the development of nuclear power. These contributions continue today, despite most women experiencing severe obstacles and handicaps in access to education, research and employment opportunities and funding. Many succeeded anyway, sometimes at great personal cost. In honor of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to introduce a few of these amazing scientists, researchers, innovators, regulators and leaders to you. Names in white (with corresponding black and white images) are historical contributors. Names in gold (and color images) are contemporary women working today. (Some contemporary women in the below list link directly to their LinkedIn profiles and you’ll find their image there.)
**Amy Roma
Shannon Bragg-Sitton
Shannon Bragg-Sitton is Director of the Integrated Energy & Storage Systems Division at Idaho National Laboratory. She has held multiple ...
Leona Woods Marshall Libby
Dr. Leona Woods Libby (1919–1986) was a physicist who played a vital role in the Manhattan Project and the early ...
Zahra Mohaghegh
Zahra Mohaghegh is a Professor and Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University ...
Christine King
Christine King leads GAIN at Idaho National Lab, accelerating public-private collaboration to bring next-gen nuclear tech to market ...
Harriet Brooks
Harriet Brooks was a physicist whose experiments helped to solve the question of what particles were emitted during radiation. As ...
Rita Baranwal
Dr. Rita Baranwal is the Chief Nuclear Officer at Radiant, a Nucleation portfolio company that pioneers the world’s first mass-produced ...
Diane Cameron
Diane Cameron is Director of Nuclear Energy at Natural Resources Canada. She plays a key role in shaping Canada’s nuclear ...
Lise Meitner
Dr. Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) is one of the most significant woman scientists of the 20th Century for her ...
Tikvah Alper
Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) was a renowned radiobiologist and physicist whose work on identifying the infection agent in Scrapie ...
Marie Curie
Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) was a physicist and chemist whose pioneering research in radioactivity won her two Nobel Prizes ...
Irene Joliot-Curie
Irene Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956) was a chemist and physicist known for her work on natural and artificial radioactivity, transmutation ...
Clarice Phelps
Clarice Evone Phelps (née Salone) is an American nuclear chemist researching the processing of radioactive transuranic elements at the US ...
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Organizations Supporting Women in Nuclear
- WiN Global (Women in Nuclear Global) — an organization of women working professionally in various fields of nuclear energy and radiation applications, with 35,000 members working in 129 countries.
- Women in Nuclear IAEA — WiN IAEA is an organization based in Vienna committed to the advancement of qualified women in the nuclear and radiation professions.
- Nucleation Capital — the first venture fund devoted to investing in advanced nuclear innovation and other deep decarbonization technologies and a firm founded by a woman, is pleased to have provided grant funding to the University of California at Berkeley to provide stipends to female nuclear engineering students seeking summer internships.
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