Alice Armstrong | |
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| Born | December 8, 1897 |
| Died | January 22, 1989 |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College, B.A. 1919 Radcliffe College, M.A. 1923, Ph.D. 1930 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Bureau of Standards Wellesley College Rockefeller Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Thesis | The Relative Intensities of Some Lines in the X-Ray Spectrum (1930) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Duane |
Alice H. Armstrong was an American physicist known as one of the first female scientists at the National Bureau of Standards and as the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University, via Radcliffe College.[1] She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1931.[2]