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Carolyn Beatrice Parker (1917-1966)
#nuclearphysicist

BA Fisk 1938 #Physics
MA U Mich 1941 #Math
MS MIT 1953 Physics

WWII Dayton (part of Manhattan) project #scientist

1st African-American woman to earn Physics graduate degree

#WomeninSTEM #histsci #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #atomicphysics 🍎 🧪
Black-and-white vintage photo of a woman in a plaid dress standing beside tall racks of electronic equipment, holding papers and adjusting a control knob on the front panel, surrounded by numerous dials, gauges, and switches. Carolyn B. Parker standing before a bank of testing instruments, taken at Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, ca 1945. courtesy Leslie Carolyn Edwards, appeared in Mickens, R. E., & Patterson, C. E. 2021, "Carolyn Beatrice Parker: A Life in Physics," History and Philosophy of Physics Newsletter, XV (College Park, MD: American Physical Society), 1, https://cdn.ymaws.com/nsbp.org/resource/resmgr/bhm-images/FHPP_Fall21.pdf
February 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1977 #Multiplex debuted in @dc.com #FirestormTheNuclearMan #comics #1 #NuclearPhysicist #DantonBlack #nefariousAssistant to #DrMartinStein caught in #theSameExplosion that transformed #RonnieRaymond into #Firestorm & it altered him with #theAbilityToDuplicateClonesOfHimself
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1977 #Multiplex debuted in #FirestormTheNuclearMan #comics #1 #NuclearPhysicist #DantonBlack #nefariousAssistant to #DrMartinStein who was caught in the same explosion that transformed Stein & #RonnieRaymond into #Firestorm and gained #theAbilityToDuplicateClonesOfHimself
December 6, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1977 #Multiplex debuted in #FirestormTheNuclearMan #comics #1 #NuclearPhysicist #DantonBlack #nefariousAssistant to #DrMartinStein was caught in the same explosion that transformed #RonnieRaymond into #Firestorm but he gained #theAbilityToDuplicateClonesOfHimself
December 6, 2023 at 5:04 PM