Rosalie Hoyt (right) with Lise Meitner (left) 1960 Bryn Mawr Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was the first full professor of physics in Germany. She was denied the Nobel Prize for her revolutionary work in nuclear fission. She refused, however, to work on the development of the nuclear bomb-- declaring "I will have nothing to do with a bomb!“ Rosalie Chase Hoyt (1914-2006) Professor of Physics at Bryn Mawr College where she received her PhD under unusual conditions: "There was no biophysics program at Bryn Mawr College when Rosalie Hoyt went there for graduate work. So, she invented one for herself." During her career, she studied nerve fibers, and won several major grants. She was one of the few tenured female Physics professors in the country in the 1960s, there being only about 10. kincerfuneralhome.com/2006-obituaries/590-rosalie-chase-hoyt aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/the-faces-of-sisters-in-science #womeninphysics #womeninSTEAM #historyofSTEM #fem...