The importance of citing Black women in physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein describes efforts to create a bibliography of papers by Black women in physics
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a contributing columnist for Physics World, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire, US. A particle cosmologist by training, she is a dark-matter theorist and also conducts research in Black feminist science, technology and society studies. Prescod-Weinstein is one of under 100 Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics and is the recipient of the 2021 American Physical Society Edward A Bouchet Award. She is a monthly columnist for New Scientist and her book The Disordered Cosmos: a Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred was published in 2021. cprescodweinstein.com/contact
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein describes efforts to create a bibliography of papers by Black women in physics
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