The Forgotten Woman Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics
#1 of our “Women of Quantum” series is the revolutionary German physicist, Lucy Mensing, a woman pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1925, Lucy as young postdoc at Göttingen conducted research on rotational spectrum of diatomic molecules using the mechanics of matrices, a technique which had just been formulated then. Through her groundbreaking work, the world was gifted with the knowledge of the allowed integer or half-integer quantum numbers of angular momentum and that only the integer ones apply for orbital angular momentum – a seminal contribution to what we know as modern quantum physics. Lucy is an immensely inspiring woman scientist in that she proved her scientific temper in one of the most complex sciences despite being born into an era where women and science were not commonly used in the same sentence! #womenofquantum
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