Gertrude Rempfer

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Gertrude Fleming Rempfer (January 30, 1912 - October 4, 2011) was an American physicist. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was an expert in Electron microscopy .[1]. She won a Howard Vollum Award.

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She graduated from Queen Anne High School. She studied forestry but switched to physics, at the University of Washington.[2]

She taught at Mount Holyoke College, Russell Sage College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During World War II, she worked at the Naval Research Laboratory, and Manhattan Project at Columbia. She worked at Farrand Optical Company. She was a professor at Portland State University.[3]

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  1. "PSU Magazine Fall 1990". web.archive.org. 2024-02-19. Archived from the original on 2024-02-19. Retrieved 2024-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Women's History Month and MSA | Microscopy Today | Cambridge Core". web.archive.org. 2022-03-15. Archived from the original on 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2024-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. Oregonian/OregonLive, Kelly House | The (2011-11-28). "Portland State University to celebrate Gertrude Rempfer, pioneering physicist who died at 99". oregonlive. Retrieved 2024-03-09.