Hildred Blewett

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Myrtle Hildred Blewett, (born Myrtle Hildrer Hunt; 28 May, 1911 – 13 June 2004) was a Canadian accelerator physicist.[1]

Blewett was born on May 28, 1911 in Toronto, Ontario.[2] Blewett graduated from the University of Toronto in 1935 with a BA in physics and mathematics. In 1938 Blewett joined Cornell University as a graduate student, with Hans Bethe as her thesis supervisor.[3]

She married John Blewett in 1936, who was also an accelerator physicist.

Career[]

Hildred Blewett started her career at General Electric, where she devised a technique for controlling smoke pollution from factory chimneys in the 1940s.[1] She and her husband John Blewett were part of the initial team at Brookhaven National Laboratory.[4] She then worked at Argonne National Laboratory before joining CERN in 1969.[3]

Following her retirement from CERN in 1977, Blewett retired to Vancouver. She died on June 13, 2004, and was commemorated by CERN colleagues Maria Fidecaro and Christine Sutton. She left much of her estate to the American Physical Society, founding the Blewett Scholarship for women physicists who return to the field after a break in their careers.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "M. Hildred Blewett". American Physical Society. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  2. ^ Wang, Jessica (1999). American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war. Chapel Hill (N.C.): University of North Carolina press. pp. 94–99. ISBN 9780807847497.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Fidecaro, Maria; Sutton, Christine (July 2011). "Hildred Blewett: a life with particle accelerators". CERN Courier. 51 (6): 35–37.
  4. ^ Jayakumar, Raghavan (2012). Particle accelerators, colliders, and the story of high energy physics charming the cosmic snake. Berlin: Springer. p. 99. ISBN 9783642220647.

Further reading[]

  • Blewett, Hildred (November 1969). "Ten years ago". CERN Courier. 9 (11): 331–335.
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