Mildred Allen
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| Mildred Allen | |
| Born | March 25, 1894 Sharon, Massachusetts |
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| Died | November 4, 1990 (aged 96) Holyoke, Massachusetts[1] |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Mount Holyoke College |
| Alma mater | Vassar College Clark University |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Gordon Webster |
Mildred Allen (March 25, 1894-November 4, 1990) was an American physicist.
With Erwin Saxl, she confirmed the ‘Allais effect’ when they measured significant variations in the period of a torsion pendulum during a solar eclipse in 1970.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life and education
Mildred Allen was born in Sharon, Massachusetts to MIT professor C. Frank Allen and Caroline Hadley Allen. She had one younger sister, Margaret Allen Anderson.
Allen graduated from Vassar College in 1916 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She completed her doctoral studies in physics in 1922 at Clark University with Arthur Gordon Webster, with thesis research done at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[edit] Career
During the 1920s and early 1930s, Allen taught at Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Oberlin Colleges and undertook post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. She began working with William Francis Gray Swann at Yale and continued work under his direction with the Bartol Research Foundation between 1927 and 1930. She also did research at Harvard University before becoming a professor at Mount Holyoke, where she taught until until retirement in 1959.
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[edit] External links
- Mildred Allen Papers at Mount Holyoke College
- Mildred Allen photo dated 1959, Mount Holyoke Digital Collections Online
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