#physicist

[forever70s]

physicist Shirley Ann Jackson in 1973; she is the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT

[blandlemongrass188]

Gordon Freeman

[yourdailyqueer]

Nina Vedeneyeva (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 1 December 1882

RIP: 31 December 1955

Ethnicity: White - Russian

Occupation: Physicist

Note: Soviet physicist involved in the study of mineral crystals and their coloration. She was noted for development and design of instruments to improve the methods of optical crystallography. She was the last partner-muse of the poet Sophia Parnok and was awarded the Stalin Prize and Order of Lenin for her scientific studies and inventions.

[blondebrainpowered]

In 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built the point-contact transistor, the first working transistor ever demonstrated. It became the ancestor of the billions of transistors that power today's computers, smartphones, and digital electronics.

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[sethdomain]

[abiwaif]

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

- R. Feynman

I relate 🙃