Hildred Blewett

Hildred Blewett (1911–2004) was a Canadian accelerator physicist.

Career

Blewett was born on May 28, 1911 in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She started her career at General Electric, where she devised a technique for controlling smoke pollution from factory chimneys in the 1940s.[2] She and her husband John Blewett were part of the initial team at Brookhaven National Laboratory.[3] She then worked at Argonne National Laboratory, then CERN.[4]

Following her retirement from CERN in 1977, Blewett retired to Vancouver. She died on June 13, 2004. She left much of her estate to the American Physical Society, founding the Blewett Scholarship for women physicists who return to the field after a break in their careers.[2]

References

1. Wang, Jessica (1999). American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war. Chapel Hill (N.C.): University of North Carolina press. pp. 94–99. ISBN 9780807847497.
2. "M. Hildred Blewett". American Physical Society. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
3. Jayakumar, Raghavan (2012). Particle accelerators, colliders, and the story of high energy physics charming the cosmic snake. Berlin: Springer. p. 99. ISBN 9783642220647.
4. Fidecaro, Maria; Sutton, Christine (July 2011). "Hildred Blewett: a life with particle accelerators". CERN Courier. 51 (6): 35–37.

Further reading

• Blewett, Hildred (November 1969). "Ten years ago". CERN Courier. 9 (11): 331–335.