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Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito (January 12, 1916 – October 5, 2013) was an American physical chemist and inventor known for her huge impact work related to the textile industry, notably including the development of wash-and-wear cotton fabrics using a technique called cross-linking.
Ruth Benerito, Newcomb alumna and inventor of wrinkle-free cotton; Delzie Demaree, 1889 – 1987, botanist and plant collector who taught botany at Tulane from 1956 to 1958; Willey Glover Denis, 1879–1929, Newcomb A.B. 1899, Tulane M.A. 1902. Biochemist; her appointment as assistant professor at Tulane Medical School has been identified as ...
Her most-famous contribution to modern physics was discovering the nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus, for which she won the Nobel Prize in 1963. Slow light Lene Hau led a Harvard University team who used a Bose–Einstein condensate to slow down a beam of light to about 17 metres per second , and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.
This book which resulted from Benedict's wartime research, like several other United States Office of War Information wartime studies of Japan and Germany, [6] is an instance of "culture at a distance", the study of a culture through its literature, newspaper clippings, films, and recordings, as well as extensive interviews with German-Americans or Japanese-Americans.
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Ruth Ann Gaines, M.A. 1970 – member of the Iowa House of Representatives; Marc Grossman, B.A. 1973 – Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and United States Ambassador to Turkey; Roger Hedgecock, 1968 – former mayor of San Diego and talk radio host; Jared Huffman, B.A. 1986 – member of the United States House of Representatives
Lois Wilson Langhorst, class of 1966, architect and educator; pioneer of modernist architecture [1] [2] [3] Judith Ledeboer, architect; Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect (left after one year) Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect
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