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Nina Byers .
In the summer of 1948, Enrico Fermi gave a course of lectures on Quantum
Mechanics in Berkeley, California. That was the beginning of Professor
Byers' career in physics. The next step was graduate study with Fermi at
the University of Chicago. Atter receiving her Ph. D. in Physics from
Chicago in 1956, she has held appointments to the faculties of University
of Birmingham, England; In s titu te of Theoretical Physics, Stanford
Un iversity; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; University of
California at Los Angeles; Oxford Un iversity; and held research
appointments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). She is Fel/ow of the
American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) and was Official Fetiow and Janet Watson
Visiting Fel/ow of Somervil/e Col/ege, Oxford.

Abstract: Women in Physics at Fermi's times
In the first half of the 20th century, Fermi's time, women breached
barriers to higher education and became major players in physics. There
were many in addition to Marie Curie who made originai and important
contributions to physics such as Emmy Noether, Marietta Blau, Irene
Joliot-Curie, Lise Meitner, Maria Goeppert Mayer and others less well
known. This talk will be about these women, their struggles to work in the
field, and some of their important contributions.