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The list LGBTQ physicists includes Sally Ride, Nergis Mavalvala, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Katie Mack (astrophysicist) and Allan V. Cox. The list consists of 19 members.
  • 1.

    Sally Ride
    American Physicist and Astronaut
    Sally Ride
    Overview: Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1951
    Date of death: 23 July 2012
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Astronaut
    Gender: Female
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    LGBT astronomers 9T
    Birmingham High School alumni 29T
    20th-century American women scientists 1,705T
  • 2.

    Nergis Mavalvala
    Quantum Astrophysicist
    Nergis Mavalvala
    Overview: Nergis Mavalvala (born 1968) is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist known for her role in the first observation of gravitational waves. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at ...
    Date of birth: 1968
    Age: 56
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Physicist
    Gender: Female
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    MIT Department of Physics alumni 211T
    Women in optics 47T
    Pakistani women physicists 3T
  • 3.

    Ben R. Oppenheimer
    American astronomer
    Overview: Rebecca Oppenheimer is an American astrophysicist and one of three curators in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Oppenheimer is a ...
    Date of birth: 1972
    Age: 52
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Transgender academics 52T
    American women astronomers 163T
    Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
  • 4.

    Katie Mack (astrophysicist)
    American astrophysicist
    Katie Mack (astrophysicist)
    Overview: Katherine J. Mack is a theoretical cosmologist and Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation. Mack ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Physicist
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century American women scientists 636T
    Bisexual academics 39T
    21st-century American physicists 1,161T
  • 5.

    Virginia Carter
    Physicist, business executive
    Virginia Carter
    Overview: Virginia Carter (18 November 1936 – 17 October 2024) was a Canadian-born physicist and entertainment executive.
    Date of birth: 18 November 1936
    Date of death: 17 October 2024
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    McGill University Faculty of Science alumni 191T
    Scientists from Quebec 33T
    Activists from Quebec 14T
  • 6.

    Allan V. Cox
    Geophysicist
    Overview: Allan Verne Cox (December 17, 1926 – January 27, 1987) was an American geophysicist. His work on dating geomagnetic reversals, with Richard Doell and Brent Dalrymple, made a major contribution to ...
    Date of birth: 17 December 1926
    Date of death: 27 January 1987
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    LGBT academics 106T
    20th-century geologists 607T
    LGBT scientists from the United States 110T
  • 7.

    Arlene Halko
    American scientist
    Overview: Arlene A. Halko (April 15, 1933 – March 22, 2007) was an American medical physicist and gay rights advocate, based in Chicago. She was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 1996.
    Date of birth: 15 April 1933
    Date of death: 22 March 2007
    Age: 73 (age at death)
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  • 8.

    Elena Long
    Physicist
    Overview: Elena Amanda Long is assistant professor of physics at the University of New Hampshire and is an activist for LGBT people in science. The journal Nature called her a "diversity trailblazer" in their N ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Physicist
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  • 9.

    Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
    American cosmologist (born c. 1982)
    Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
    Overview: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an American and Barbadian theoretical cosmologist, and is both an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Core Faculty Member in Women's and Gender Studies at the ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Astronomer
    Gender: Female
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    Members of the National Society of Black Physicists 11T
    MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni 25T
    American women astronomers 211T
  • 10.

    Angela Clayton
    Transgender rights activists and physicist (1959 – 2014)
    Angela Clayton
    Overview: Angela Helen Clayton MBE (1959 – 8 January 2014) was an internationally known physicist working in the fields of Nuclear Criticality Safety and Health Physics. She was also a campaigner for the rights ...
    Date of birth: 1959
    Date of death: 8 January 2014
    Age: 54 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 11.

    Neil Divine
    American astrophysicist
    Overview: Theodore Neil Divine (1939 – 1994) was an American stellar and planetary astrophysicist.
    Date of birth: 1939
    Date of death: 1994
    Age: 54 (age at death)
    Occupation: Astronomer
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    MIT Department of Physics alumni 211T
    People from Dorset, Vermont 9T
    20th-century American physicists 853T
  • 12.

    Renée Hložek
    South African cosmologist
    Renée Hložek
    Overview: Renée Hložek (born 15 November 1983) is a South African cosmologist, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and an Azrieli ...
    Date of birth: 15 November 1983
    Age: 41
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Astronomer
    Gender: Female
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  • 13.

    Nina Vedeneyeva
    Soviet physicist
    Nina Vedeneyeva
    Overview: Nina Yevgenyevna Vedeneyeva (Russian: Нина Евгеньевна Веденеева, 1 December 1882 – 31 December 1955) was a Russian physicist involved in the study of mineral crystals and their coloration. Heading numerous ...
    Date of birth: 1 December 1882
    Date of death: 31 December 1955
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Physicist
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  • 14.

    James B. Pollack
    American astronomer
    James B. Pollack
    Overview: James Barney Pollack (July 9, 1938 – June 13, 1994) was an American astrophysicist who worked for NASA's Ames Research Center.
    Date of birth: 9 July 1938
    Date of death: 13 June 1994
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Scientists from New York 628T
    Lawrence High School (Cedarhurst, New York) alumni 24T
    People from Woodmere, New York 41T
  • 15.

    Kate Stone (engineer)
    British engineer and founder and CEO of Novalia
    Kate Stone (engineer)
    Overview: Dr Kate Stone is an English engineer and founder and CEO of the company Novalia which has developed products using "Interactive Printed Media".
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Engineer
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century women engineers 425T
    British women engineers 138T
    People from Cheshire 243T
  • 16.

    Sarah Veatch
    American biophysicist
    Overview: Sarah Louise Veatch is an American biophysicist, associate professor of biophysics at University of Michigan.
    Occupation: Physicist
    Gender: Female
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  • 17.

    Jennifer Burney
    Environmental scientist
    Overview: Jennifer Burney is Associate Professor and the Marshall Saunders Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Global Climate Policy and Research at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on global ...
    Occupation: Physicist
    Gender: Female
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  • 18.

    Omer Blaes
    American astrophysicist
    Overview: Omer Michael Blaes (born April 30, 1961) is an American astrophysicist. He is a professor of physics at University of California, Santa Barbara.
    Date of birth: 30 April 1961
    Age: 63
    Occupation: Astronomer
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  • 19.

    Clyde Wahrhaftig
    American geologist
    Clyde Wahrhaftig
    Overview: Clyde A. Wahrhaftig (December 1, 1919 – April 6, 1994) was an American geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey and taught at the University of California at Berkeley. His research ...
    Date of birth: 1 December 1919
    Date of death: 6 April 1994
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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