Janette Dunlop

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Janette Dunlop (born March 10, 1891 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † May 8, 1971 there ) was a Scottish physicist .

Life and research

Dunlop was the daughter of hat maker David M Dunlop, who ran her grandfather David Dunlop's hat business in Edinburgh. After graduating from George Watson's Ladies College, she studied physics at the University of Edinburgh with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in 1914. With a Carnegie Research Fellowship, she conducted research at the University of Edinburgh under the direction of the later Nobel Prize winner Charles Glover Barkla . She studied the scattering of X-rays by various substances and published the results with Charles Glover Barkla. Since there was a great shortage of teachers after the First World War , she trained as a teacher at Moray House, where she qualified with distinction in 1917. She then taught at two schools in Edinburgh, George Watson's Ladies College and George Heriot's School, and at a school in London .

Awards

  • Dux of George Watson's Ladies College 1909
  • Donald Fraser Scholarship from Edinburgh University

Publications (selection)

  • Barkla, CG; Dunlop, Janette G .: Note on the scattering of x-rays and atomic structure. London, Edinburgh and Dublin philosophical magazine and journal of science Series 6, Vol. 31, no.183 (March 1916), 30, pp. 222-232.

literature

  • Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham: A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity, 1997, ISBN 978-0941901154

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personal data
SURNAME Dunlop, Janette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1971
Place of death Edinburgh , Scotland