In REMEMBRANCE---2017 AD


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tuxgeo

Adventurer

May she find peace and joy in whatever sort of existence she may encounter after her death. By now, she has earned some measure of peace and joy. (But I like to think that of nearly everyone.)

(Mixed Cajun and Cherokee ancestry? That sounds much like my ignorant, personal mental stereotype of Louisiana -- at least partly because I have never been there.) (Texarkana, yes; Louisiana, no.)
 






freyar

Extradimensional Explorer
Mildred Dresselhaus has passed away at the age of 86. She was a pioneer in solid state physics, especially carbon physics including buckyballs, as well as a strong advocate for women in the sciences and the first female full professor at MIT. She received both the US National Medal of Science (1990) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014) along with many other awards.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/institute-professor-emerita-mildred-dresselhaus-dies-86-0221
 


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