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The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame was a program the State of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services ran from 1978 [1] through 2011. The Hall has over 400 members. [2] In 2019, the Hall's physical archives and online records were transferred to the State Archives in the Ohio History Center.
Born in 1855 in Toledo, Ohio to Oliver and Harriet (Kaufman) Jacobs, Goode was originally named Sarah Elisabeth Jacobs. [2] When she was young, her father worked as a waiter, and her mother kept the house. [3] Her mother also served as an organizer for the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in Toledo, [4] which was a stop on the Underground Railroad. [5]
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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.
Elizabeth Blackwell (abolitionist, women's rights activist, first female doctor in U.S.) (Cincinnati) John Brown (abolitionist) (Hudson) Alice A. W. Cadwallader (philanthropist and temperance activist) (St. Clairsville) Rebecca Ballard Chambers (temperance reformer) (Ohio) Annie W. Clark (social reformer)
“The Champion of Women Inventors.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 8, no. 1, Summer 1992, pp22–26. “The Patent Office Clerk as Conjurer: The Vanishing Lady Trick in a Nineteenth-Century Historical Source,” in Women, Work, and Technology: Transformations, edited by Barbara Drygulski Wright et al. Ann Arbor: University of ...
Andrew graduated from Steele High School, which was in Dayton, Ohio. [1] Upon her graduation, she began her collegiate career at The Ohio State University. Andrew was an active member of the OSU chapter of the Sigma Kappa sorority. [1] She was the first woman to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking and Finance from OSU. [1]
Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Denver, Colorado.As a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, she won the Denver City and Colorado State science fair competition, and placed second in the Physics division and a first place award from the Air Force at the International Science Fair for her project entitled, "Holographic Study of the Sporangiophore Phycomyces".