to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with physicist George Gamow, who worked at APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54). While 4 kids were young, she taught at Georgetown before gaining the position 🧵

at Carnegie’s Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism. 1st woman to use Palomar Observatory in ‘65, solved lack of washrooms by cutting out a paper skirt & pasting it to the little man icon. With instrument maker Kent Ford she made most sensitive spectrometer of the day using his new magnetically focused 🧵