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...When Georgi first came to the College as an undergrad, the issue wasn’t even on the radar screen. Harvard was for men and Radcliffe for women, and though they shared classrooms and labs, men outnumbered women four...
...admissions review more holistic, emphasizing recommendations and grades and downplaying GREs, where women tend to get lower scores than their male counterparts. “There are lots of ways in which we have too narrow a view of what a physicist needs to look like,” Georgi says...
...sees all these really, really smart women, and he wants to get them and keep them in physics,” says Franklin, who first came to Harvard as a junior fellow selected by Georgi and others. Though just six women teach in the physics department, that’s light years ahead of other departments at other schools, she says...
...Although Georgi is no longer head of the department, he still plays ambassador to physics buffs. Freshmen in his Physics 15b and 16 classes turn to him instead of their academic advisers. As Head Tutor, he’s turned Leverett House into the de facto center for physics outside of Jefferson Hall. Every Wednesday, students converge on the dining hall for Physics Night, seeking help from each other and the man himself...
It’s 11 a.m., and the Physics 15b lecture is winding down. In last night’s outfit, Georgi leans against the wall, waiting. Science Center D is silent as students send in their answers to a multiple choice question via remote controls. The answers tally up on screen. “Did that make sense?” he asks. “You’re quiet!” They quickly murmur perfunctory yeses...