Jess Wade

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Jess Wade (2019)

Jessica "Jess" Alice Feinmann Wade (* 1988 ) is a British physicist and researcher at the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London . She is involved in campaigns to get women excited about engineering and science, and against sexism in science. Wade's commitment to gender equality in science was recognized by the British Queen Elizabeth II in 2019 with the award of the British Empire Medal .

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Wade was educated at South Hampstead High School and graduated in 2007. She then completed a foundation course in art and design at Chelsea College of Art and Design and completed a Master of Science (MSCI) in physics at Imperial College London in 2012 . She continued her career at Imperial and received her PhD in physics in 2016. Her doctoral thesis dealt with nanometrology in organic semiconductors and was supervised by Professor Ji-Seon Kim . Jess Wade examines polymer-based light-emitting diodes in her research .

Jess Wade is involved in campaigns to get women excited about engineering and science, including the WISE campaign and the Stemettes network . She represented the United Kingdom in the Hidden No More exchange program established by the US State Department for women with technical or scientific training in management positions. Wade's goal is to ensure that women who achieve outstanding achievements receive the attention they deserve in order to create role models for the women scientists and engineers of the future.

After reading Angela Saini's book Inferior , published in 2017 . How Science Got Women Wrong , she wrote more than 400 biographies in English about important women on Wikipedia in 2018 , including computer scientist Laura Waller , blockchain specialist Misty Blowers , professor of biomedical engineering Elizabeth Hillmann and dermatologist Tayyaba Hasan and Amy Parish which has proven that bonobos live in matriarchy . Her work to overcome the disproportion between male and female biographies on Wikipedia sparked wide media coverage. Besides the quantity, she is also concerned with the quality. She told ORF.at that Marie Curie had to share an entry with her husband Pierre Curie for a long time . So that every school library in the UK can cause an output of Angela Sainis book, Wade has 20,000 pounds collected.

In September 2018, she gave a lecture at a workshop at the research center CERN , which was about equal opportunities between female and male researchers in particle physics. She then criticized the physicist Alessandro Strumia, who was also represented, on Twitter and in an article in the New Scientist , who had made defamatory statements about women and was subsequently suspended.

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Web links

Commons : Jess Wade  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Demmer: Wikipedia biographer makes women big. Bayern 2 , October 29, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dr Jessica Wade. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics - Research Associate. Imperial College London, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Early career researcher wins the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize. Institute of Physics , November 10, 2016, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Judith Luig: Jess Wade: Girls need courage for math. Portrait. In: Zeit Online . August 31, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Suw Charman-Anderson: Five amazing female scientists you've probably never heard of. In: The Guardian . July 25, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Melody Kramer: Meet the scientist working to increase the number of underrepresented scientists and engineers on Wikipedia. In: Community, from the Archives, Interview, Profiles, Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation , July 13, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Magdalena Pulz: Gender inequality at Wikipedia. We have to celebrate brilliant women. In: Women's rights and equality. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 22, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019 (interview with Jesse Wade).
  8. ↑ a b Nisha Gaind: Jess Wade. In: Nature's 10. nature, December 20, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Jess Wade, Maryam Zaringhalam: Why we're editing women scientists onto Wikipedia. In: Nature . August 14, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Florian Bock: "Women in Red": The missing women in Wikipedia. In: ORF.at. October 6, 2018, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Jess Wade: It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics? Short online version of the article in New Scientist Magazine on October 6, 2018. October 1, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Julia Merlot: Gender workshop at Cern: physicist insults female colleagues and is suspended. In: Spiegel Online . October 2, 2018, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ IOM3 Awards 2017. IOM3 - The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, accessed October 25, 2018 .
  14. ^ Julia Higgins Medal and Awards. Retrieved October 25, 2018 (UK English).
  15. ↑ Elizabeth Nixon: Imperial celebrates work to support gender equality. In: Imperial News. Imperial College London, November 23, 2017, accessed October 25, 2018 .
  16. ↑ 2018 Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize. Institute of Physics , accessed July 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ A Physicist Is Writing a Wikipedia Entry Every Single Day to Promote Women in Science. In: ScienceAlert. July 26, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Birthday Honors lists 2019. Cabinet Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Home Office, Prime Minister's Office, June 7, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Societal engagement recognized in 2019 President's Awards for Excellence. In: Imperial News. Imperial College London, June 7, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
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SURNAME Wade, Jess
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988