Mary Chilton Noyes (January 13, 1855 – September 13, 1936) was a physicist known for being the first woman to earn a PhD from Western Reserve University and one of the first women to earn a PhD in physics from a United States institution.
Mary Chilton Noyes | |
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| Born | January 13, 1855 |
| Died | September 13, 1936 (aged 81) |
| Education | University of Iowa, Ph.B. 1881, A.M. 1884 Cornell University, M.S. 1894 Western Reserve University, PhD 1895 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Lake Erie College Minneapolis Academy |
| Thesis | The Influence of Heat and the Electric Current upon Young's Modulus for a Plano Wire (1895) |