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Women in Physics Profiles

What Are Doing With Physics

Physicists don't all work in labs or teach physics, although many do, and love their jobs.

A physics degree will qualify a woman for a variety of careers from inventing to analyzing to improving her environment.  Find out the diversity of physics by exploring the jobs of these women with physics degrees.

  

Alicia Soderberg

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Alicia once wanted to be an environmental scientist, but she fell in love with looking at the stars in the night's sky.

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Alison Binkowski

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Alison is a physicist, policy analyst, avid traveler, and proficient in Spanish and Mandarin.

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Claudia Alexander

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Claudia likes to write science fiction and ride horses when she's not studying comets and moons.

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Deborah Berebichez

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Debbie finds that her most rewarding work lies in public speaking and getting others excited about science.

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Ellen Ochoa

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Ellen once considered an education in music, but instead, she became the first Hispanic woman in space.

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Evelynn Hammonds

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Evelynn holds honorary degrees at Spelman College and Bates College.

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Gabriela Gonzalez

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Gabriela shapes minds as a professor and attempts to unlock the mysteries of Gravitational Waves as a researcher.

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Ginger Kerrick

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Ginger can speak Russian, plays basketball, and likes to ride motorcycles.

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Kelle Cruz

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Kelle spends much of her time looking at small stars, but when's she not looking at stars, she's blogging and traveling.

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Luz Martinez-Miranda

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Luz is fascinated by the way optics problems relate to the real world. “There was something about lenses that made me want to study more,” she says.

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Marta Dark McNeese

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Marta chose physics mostly because she was fascinated with optics, and a little bit because she was afraid of chemicals and disliked knives.

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Nadya Mason

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Nadya went from gymnastics Olympic hopeful to research scientist.

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Shirley Ann Jackson

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Shirley has come a long way from her childhood fascination with the bumblebees in her backyard.

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