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...Wellesley, Prentiss says she cultivated a taste for existentialist philosophy and for Wittgenstein. In the meantime, she started working in the labs at MIT as an undergraduate through an exchange program at Wellesley. She continued at MIT for graduate school. There, she carried out the first project to observe channeling in optical standing waves--channeling the path of atoms along the nodes of laser standing waves. Prentiss received her Ph.D. from...
After receiving her Ph.D, Prentiss was hired to work at AT&T Bell Laboratories by Steve Chu, who won the Nobel Prize this year. At Bell Laboratories, she directed the first demonstration of how shining laser light from all directions can confine atoms to the center of a magnetic field, the first Magneto Optical Trap...
...Prentiss arrived at Harvard in 1991. In 1995, she became the second woman in the physics department to ever receive tenure. Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin was the first female tenured by the department...
...Prentiss says that females in the science should not be stereotyped...
...Prentiss says it is difficult to be a member of an underrepresented group in science...