Nina Byers
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Nina Byers is Research Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus at UCLA. Her academic degrees are from University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago. She is known on the Internet for her sponsorship of the Contributions of 20th century Women to Physics.
Recent publications have been on history of 20th century physics, some of which are listed here.
- OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th century Women to Physics, ed. Nina Byers and Gary Williams, Cambridge University Press 2006.
- EINSTEIN AND WOMEN. APS News Jun 2005.
- PHYSICISTS AND THE 1945 DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB. CERN Courier Oct 2002. (e-Print Archive: physics/0210058)
- FERMI AND SZILARD in "Fermi Remembered", ed. James Cronin, U. of Chicago Press 2004 (e-Print Archive: physics/0207094)
- E. NOETHER'S DISCOVERY OF THE DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN SYMMETRIES AND CONSERVATION LAWS. Invited talk in Symposium on the Heritage of Emmy Noether, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2-4 Dec 1996. ISRAEL MATHEMATICAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Vol. 12, 1999 (e-Print Archive: physics/9807044)
Publications of research results in physics can be found linked to websites below.