work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date article_title name alma_mater
massachusetts institute of technology princeton , new jersey american physics 9 september 1928 vera kistiakowsky
 vera kistiakowsky mount holyoke college university of california , berkeley
vera kistiakowsky

vera kistiakowsky -lrb- b. 1928 -rrb- is an american research physicist , teacher , and arms control activist .
she is professor emerita at massachusetts institute of technology in the physics department and laboratory for nuclear science , and is an activist for women 's participation in the sciences .
dr. kistiakowsky is an expert in experimental particle physics and observational astrophysics .
her professional career began in the nuclear chemistry field , later moving to nuclear physics , and then particle physics , and finally astrophysics .
she received her a.b. in chemistry from mount holyoke college in 1948 and a phd in chemistry from the university of california at berkeley in 1952 .
she began her career at mit in 1963 and was the first woman appointed mit professor of physics .
she is the daughter of physical chemist george kistiakowsky , who taught at harvard and served as president dwight d. eisenhower 's science advisor .
she married gerhard -lrb- jerry -rrb- emil fischer , a fellow student at the university of california in berkeley , in 1951 , and has three children .
