This is Physics

This poster collection is displayed on the wall outside Crow 201. Posters are regularly rotated. They are here to remind us of the importance of diversity in physics through the successful stories of these brilliant scientists.

Carolyn Parker

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chien-Shiung Wu

Dara Norman

Deborah Jin

Edward Bouchet was among the first 20 Americans (of any race) to receive a PhD in physics

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman astronaut

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair for Diversity in Astronomy

Astrophysicist France Cordova is the Director of the National Science Foundation

Fred Begay became the first Native American in history to earn a PhD in physics

Gabriela Gonzalez was one of four scientists present for the announcement of LIGO's first direct gravitational wave observation

Hadiyah-Nicole Green

Homer Neal

John Johnson

Solar System

Mae Jemison

Marcela Carena is the Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Melissa Franklin

Mildred Dresselhaus laid the foundation of nanotechnology by predicting the existence of carbon nanotubes

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author and science communicator

Renee Horton is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM an is devoted to changing the face of STEM

Shirley Jackson became the first African American woman to earn a PhD from MIT and is the second African American woman in the U.S. to earn a PhD in physics

Grad student working on equipment in a physics lab

Walter Massey

Wanda Diaz-Merced is an astrophysicist and computer scientist who became a pioneer of sonification after losing her eyesight as a young adult