Word: georgis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...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...