“One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.”
Ethnicity: American
Birthday: November 11, 1930
Born in: Brooklyn, New York
Mildred was a professor,engineer, and a physicist. She was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She has received the IEEE Medal of Honor, Enrico Fermi Award, L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, and the National Medal of Science for Engineering..Amid public debate over the capacity of women to thrive in a scientific environment, Dr. Dresselhaus’s esteemed career provides a decisive and resounding answer. Her quiet leadership, serving as a generous mentor and role model to countless women over the years, has had a profound impact on the scientific opportunities that are available to women today.
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