Conwell, Esther M. (Esther Marly), 1922-2014

LC control no.	n 94059732
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Conwell, Esther M. (Esther Marly), 1922-2014 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Conwell, Esther Marly, 1922-
Birth date	19220523
Death date	20141116
Field of activity	Physics Education
Affiliation	National Science Foundation (U.S.). Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer University of Chicago University of Rochester Brooklyn College
Profession or occupation	Physicists College teachers
Found in	Electroluminescent materials, devices, and large-screen displays, 1993: t.p. (Esther M. Conwell) LC data base, 6-22-94 (hdg.: Conwell, Esther Marly, 1922-; usage: Esther M. Conwell) Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics WWW site, July 24, 2013: Conwell, Esther (Esther Marly Conwell, 1922- ; Adjunct Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, University of Rochester; received B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1942, M.S. from University of Rochester in 1945, Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1948) University of Rochester, Nov. 18, 2014 (Dr. Esther Conwell earned a Ph.D. in atomic physics at a time when few women were entering science. Conwell earned her master's degree in physics at Rochester and her doctorate at the University of Chicago where she was an assistant to Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi and did her doctoral work with another Nobelist, Subraman Yan Chandrasekhar. Dr. Conwell was married to the novelist Abraham Rothberg and is mother of fellow scientist Dr. Lewis J. Rothberg.) <http://www.rochester.edu/news/conwell.html> Wikipedia, Nov. 18, 2014 (Esther M. Conwell; Esther Marley Conwell; born May 23, 1922; died November 16, 2014 in Brighton, N.Y.; physicist who studied properties of semiconductors and organic conductors, especially transport. In 1998, Conwell joined the University of Rochester, as Professor of Chemistry and of Physics. She holds four patents and has published over 200 papers)