Weeks, Dorothy W.
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Dorothy W. Weeks papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0400
Abstract
The collection contains biographical information about Dorothy Weeks, a physicist, and the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The collection also includes material about the women who gathered in summer terms at MIT in the late 1940s to work with George Harrison in the spectroscopy lab on compiling wave length tables.
Dates:
1940 - 1980