Edith Anne Stoney

Edith Anne Stoney
Edith Anne Stoney c. early 1890s
Born6 January 1869
Dublin, Ireland
Died25 June 1938 (1938-06-26) (aged 69)
Bournemouth, England
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsMedical Physics
Institutions

Edith Anne Stoney (6 January 1869 – 25 June 1938) was a physicist born in Dublin in an old-established Anglo-Irish scientific family.[1] She is considered to be the first woman medical physicist.[2]

  1. ^ O'Hara, James G (2003). "George Johnstone Stoney, 1826–1911". In McCartney, Mark; Whitaker, Andrew (eds.). Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision. Taylor & Francis. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4200-3317-5.
  2. ^ Duck, Francis A (December 2013). "Edith Stoney MA, the first woman medical physicist" (PDF). Scope. 22 (4): 49–54. ISSN 0964-9565. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2016.