Mary Laura Chalk Rowles

Mary Laura Chalk Rowles
Born1904
Quebec, Canada
DiedFebruary 14, 1996(1996-02-14) (aged 91–92)
Montreal, Canada
EducationMcGill University, B.A. 1925
McGill University, M.Sc. 1926
McGill University, Ph.D. 1928
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum mechanics
Stark effect
InstitutionsMcGill University
King's College London
Thesis Observed Relative Intensities of Stark Components in Hydrogen
Doctoral advisorJohn Stuart Foster

Mary Laura Chalk Rowles (1904 – February 14, 1996) was a Canadian physicist and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from McGill University.[1] She is best known for having conducted an early experimental verification of Erwin Schrödinger's wave formulation of quantum mechanics with John Stuart Foster.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "McGill Physics: General Information". www.physics.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  2. ^ Ainley, Marianne Gosztonyi (2012). Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880–1980. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 102–105.
  3. ^ Monaldi, Daniela (2022-04-01). "Laura Chalk and the Stark Effect". APS April Meeting 2022 Abstracts: S05.001. Bibcode:2022APS..APRS05001M.
  4. ^ Brush, Stephen G.; Segal, Ariel (2015). Making 20th Century Science: How Theories Became Knowledge. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-997815-1.