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from 1915 to 1923. From 1908 to 1914, she and her sister Harriet Stone ran a school for American girls in Rome, and later in life they ran another school for girls in
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Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research
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Stone was born in 1868 to Harriet H. Leonard Stone and Leander Stone in
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Stone was one of two women (out of a total of 836) to attend the first
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in physics in the United States, earning hers just two years after
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Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution
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in her later years. Some of her letters are in the papers of
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Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century
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from 1898 to 1906, and head of the physics department at
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Forum on the History of Physics, 2019 essay contest
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Properties of thin films when deposited in a vacuum
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(2000-01-01). 208:International Congress of Physics 694:20th-century American physicists 689:19th-century American physicists 551:. Scarecrow Press. p. 214. 233:Stone's research focused on the 469:The Physics of Metals, Volume 1 370:Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie (1990). 188:Stone taught for a year at the 222:) at the first meeting of the 164:earned a Doctor of Science at 1: 724:20th-century women physicists 719:19th-century women physicists 674:University of Chicago alumni 572:Darrow, K. K. (2009-01-22). 528:Sweet Briar College (1920). 472:. CUP Archive. p. 176. 303:Timeline of women in science 404:Conable, Charlotte (1977). 740: 684:Columbia University alumni 376:. 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An older white woman in academic robes and a mortarboard cap, from 1920 yearbook
Wellesley College
University of Chicago
Bryn Mawr School
Vassar College
Sweet Briar College
Thesis
physicist
American Physical Society
PhD
United States
Chicago
Wellesley College
PhD
Caroline Willard Baldwin
Cornell University
University of Chicago
resistivity
Bryn Mawr School
Vassar College
Sweet Briar College
Washington, D.C.
International Congress of Physics
Paris
Marie Curie
Marcia Keith
American Physical Society
Columbia University
electrical resistance
thin films

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