Shortly thereafter she met her collaborator, the chemist Otto Hahn, and had to consent to working in the basement of a male-only building in order to collaborate with Hahn, who was allowed to climb the floors while Meitner remained confined to below ground - one couldn’t dream up a better metaphor. Lise Meitner, 1906īut when 29-year-old Meitner arrived in Berlin with her hard-earned doctorate in tow, hoping to further her studies by learning from the great Max Planck, she was shocked to find herself in a time machine - German universities were still closed to women and she had to obtain special permission to attend Planck’s lectures. She had to wait almost a decade - a decade filled with voracious self-schooling - before pursuing her Ph.D., which she obtained in 1905, becoming one of a handful of women to have achieved a doctorate in physics in the entire history of the world up to that point. When her formal schooling ended at age fourteen, Austrian universities did not yet admit women. Tesla was born a generation before the great Austrian physicist Lise Meitner (November 7, 1878–October 27, 1968), who would go on to embody his vision and pave the way for women in science.ĭespite showing an aptitude for mathematics from an early age, Meitner didn’t have the same educational avenues for pursuing her passion as her male peers. The average woman, he predicted, “will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose.”
The May Day traditional celebrations last all-day on the Sunday after classes end and there are numerous events put on by the students, including plays, a parade, and a concert.“The female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded,” Nikola Tesla asserted in his prescient and then-countercultural 1926 vision for women’s intellectual empowerment. Parade Night, a celebration after having completed the first week of classes, is the first of the academic year, while Lantern Night, where sophomores present first-year students with lanterns in their class colour, follows shortly afterwards. University traditions are a big part of student life at Bryn Mawr College.
It is widely regarded as one of the United States’ most scenic college campuses. There are several halls of residence, each named after a different Welsh town, as well as a 135-acre arboretum, a memorial garden, a theatre, and several libraries. The Bryn Mawr College campus is home to most students, will a small proportion choosing to live off-campus. More than 40 majors and over 50 minors and concentrations from a diverse range of study fields are available to students, and longstanding partnerships with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, allow Bryn Mawr students even more study opportunities. Today around 1,300 undergraduate women are enrolled, while the co-educational graduate school has more than 400 male and female students. The college shares its name with the town of Bryn Mawr – meaning ‘big hill’ in Welsh – where it is located. The university was the first college in the United States to offer graduate education through to PhD level for women. Founded in 1885, this private institution is part of the Seven Sisters association, one of seven liberal arts colleges that are historically women’s colleges.
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