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Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’67 spent a February weekend peering into a Hawaiian sunset with his freshman-year roommates...
...year-old Georgi, a bearded, august professor, might seem like an unlikely feminist. But if anyone has the heft to make change, he does. The physicist learned his scientific ABCs at the College from Nobel Prize-winner Julian Schwinger, won renown in the lab, and eventually assumed the chairmanship of Harvard’s physics department...
...hasn’t stayed put in the aftermath of the Summers frenzy. Just one day after the story broke, Georgi sent an e-mail to all physics concentrators, deeming any discussion of innate differences unfruitful. And his efforts haven’t stopped...
...nears 11 p.m., Leverett dining hall buzzes with chatter about electromagneticism and gravity. At the center is Georgi. Three students—just a handful of the many who will seek his signature or advice during his office hours—tip-toe in a line to his side, problem-sets in hand. They’re confused about a charge. Georgi flattens his hands to illustrate the problem, but then tells them to wait for more answers in lecture the next morning...
...Status of Women in the early 1990s when it produced an important report on the experience of female junior faculty and graduate students in the sciences at Harvard and working on an initiative in the late 1990s chaired by Professors Friend and John Dowling, and including Professors Howard Georgi and Dudley Herschbach, to help facilitate the identification, recruitment, and retention of women science faculty...