Isabelle Stone

Isabelle Stone
An older white woman in academic robes and a mortarboard cap, from 1920 yearbook
Isabelle Stone, from a 1920 yearbook
BornOctober 18, 1868
Chicago, Illinois, US
Died1966
Alma materWellesley College
University of Chicago
Scientific career
InstitutionsBryn Mawr School
Vassar College
Sweet Briar College
Thesis On the Electrical Resistance of Thin Films  (1897)

Isabelle Stone (October 18, 1868 – 1966) was an American physicist and educator. She was one of the founders of the American Physical Society.[1] She was among the first women to earn a PhD in physics in the United States.

  1. ^ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis. p. 1241. ISBN 978-0415920407. Retrieved 6 April 2014.