MyWiki:WikiProject Women in Red/Physics

WiR redlist index: Physics

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia. Please note however that the red links on this list may well not be suitable as the basis for an article. All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria with reliable independent sources.

This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their contribution to science in academics, business, economics, politics, research, government or the social sector.

Astrophysics

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Argentina

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France

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Germany

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Russia/USSR

• Valentina Fedorets, Soviet astronomer (1923-1976) has crater on Venus named after her [1]
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UK

• Antonia Rowlinson, Associate Professor of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam (285 publications as of 2025, h-index of 47) personal website Google Scholar page

US

• Jennifer Ngadiuba, now at Fermilab, who uses AI to detect high-energy particles. She has more than 1000 publications.
• Sarah Vigeland, associate professor of physics at UWM. She is on the management team and chair of the Gravitational Wave Detection Working Group of the NANOGrav consortium. academic home page, Google scholar profile.

Physics

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Argentina

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Australia

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Austria

• Andrea Hickel, biophysics
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China

• Hong Hua, Professor, University of Arizona, SPIE Fellow and director of the 3DVIS lab [2]
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France

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Germany

Hertha Sponer Prize (in German)

• Barbara Drossel, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, condensed matter theory [3]
• Simone Giombi, winner of the New Horizons in Physics Prize
• Beate Naroska, Universitaet Hamburg, experimental particle physicist, professorship named in her honor [4]
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Greece

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Hungary

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Israel

• Orly Alter, Israeli-American geneticist, mathematician, and physicist commons:Category:Orly_Alter [5]
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Italy

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Mexico

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Poland

• Anna Stasto, Professor of Physics at Penn State, elected as Fellow of the APS in 2023 published papers elevation to APS fellowship

South Africa

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Spain

• Alba Moreno Scientific disseminator specializing in thermodynamics and quantum physics

Switzerland

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UK

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US

• Orly Alter, Israeli-American geneticist, mathematician, and physicist commons:Category:Orly_Alter
• Mary Argo, a physicist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. The only woman officially invited to watch the Trinity test.
• Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University [6][7]
• Meredith Betterton, Univ of Colorado [8]
• Jasna Brujic, NYU
• Amelia Frank, American physicist (d. 16/08/1937), was a physicist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the late 1920s to 1930s. She published at least 3 articles in Physical Review and 1 article in PNAS, including with her (assumed) PhD advisor John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1977). She is mentioned in van Vleck's Nobel Lecture as Miss Frank, a plot from one of her single-author Physical Review articles is also used (slightly modified) in this Nobel Lecture. This plot shows how van Vleck and Frank's work improved on the quantum theory of magnetism compared to earlier works. Frank married Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963) on 23/12/1936. She died less than one year after her marriage to Wigner of an apparent heart issue, as detailed in the book by Szanton. While information on Frank is limited, there are few stories of women working on the quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s, making her accomplishments as a physicist notable. In 1961, in a Physical Review Letters article by White and van Vleck, an oddly specific reference is made noting her mathematical contributions, "This expression may easily be obtained using the secular determinant given by Amelia Frank, Phys. Rev. 48, 765 (1935), p. 767". This style of citation is unusual, suggesting the esteem van Vleck held for Frank. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4899-6313-0 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1977/vleck/lecture/
• Silvina M. Gatica, Howard U
• Vernita Gordon, Univ of Texas
• Linda Hirst, Univ of California, Merced [9] [10]
• Vivian F. Incera, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley [11]
• Hye-Young Kim, Southeastern Louisiana U
• Marinna Madrid, co-founder of Cellino Biotech, Inc. Forbe's 30 under 30 [[12]] [13] [14]
• Marlene H.P. McKetty first African American woman to earn a PhD in Medical Physics and is accomplished in that field. She is a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (inducted 2004) [15][16]
• Ann Orel – a multi-talent scientist and educator on the faculty of University of California, Davis and on the staff of Ultrafast X-Ray Science Laboratory at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her work involves applied chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical physics, high energy physics, and material science. [17]; [18]; [19]; [20]; [21]; [22]; [23]; [24]; [25]; [26]; [27]; [28]; [29]; [30]; [31]
• Valeria Otero, University of Colorado Boulder, APS Excellence in Physics Education Award 2019 and APS Fellow 2023, pioneer of learning assistant model [32][33][34][35][36]
• Alison Peck, deputy project scientist, ALMA [37] [38][39] [40]
• Banahalli R. Ratna, Naval Research Lab
• Janice Reutt-Robey, Univ of Maryland
• Cherrill Spencer (1946) [[41]] [[42]] [[43]] [[44]]
• Desire Whitmore, Senior Science Educator and Staff Physicist, Exploratorium, USA [[45]] [[46]]

From List of American Physical Society Fellows

• Debra A. Callahan, LLNL, 2014 APS Fellow [47]
• Naomi C. R. Makins, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [[48]] [49]
• Regina Demina, University of Rochester [[50]]
• Anne Elisabeth White, MIT, 2019 APS Fellow [51][52]
• Arlene Modeste Knowles, AIP TEAM UP Manager, 2021 APS Fellow [53][54]
• Crystal D. Bailey, Career Programs head APS, 2022 APS Fellow [55] [56]
• Daniela Leitner, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2022 APS Fellow [57] [58]
• Deborah A. Harris, York University, Fermi National Accelerator Lab, 2013 APS Fellow [59] [60] [61]
• Emanuela Barzi, Fermi National Accelerator Lab, 2012 APS Fellow [62] [63]
• Priscilla Cushman, University of Minnesota, 2012 APS Fellow [64][65][66][67]
• Mette B. Gaarde, Louisiana State University, 2012 APS Fellow [68][69][70]
• Evelyn Thomson, University of Pennsylvania, 2022 APS Fellow [71] [72]
• Ann E. Orel, UC Davis, 2000 APS Fellow [73][74][75]
• Laura Reina, Florida State University, 2005 APS Fellow [76][77]
• Naomi C. Makins, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [78]
• Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota, 2016 APS Fellow [79][80]
• Svetlana Sukhishvili, Texas A&M University [81] [82]
• Leposava Vuskovic, Old Dominion University [83]
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Russia

• Ekaterina Nikitichna Blinova (1906-1981), Soviet Russian geophysicist, winner of 1978 Friedman Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. [84] [85]
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External links

• List of female physicists (in German)
• List of female physicists (in Portuguese)
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