Betsy Ancker-Johnson
Born on April 29, 1927, Dr. Betsy Ancker-Johnson was never pictured as a woman of science by many. However, claiming her B.A. at Wellesley College in 1949 and getting her Ph.D. at Tuebingen University, Germany in 1953 made her the American physicist that she is known to be today.
A newspaper article on Dr. Betsy Ancker-Johnson's achievement as the first female Vice President in the Auto Industry
Dr. Betsy Ancker-Johnson made imperative contributions to the topic of plasmas in solids. She conducted researches and studied the many instabilities that may occur in plasmas in solids, such as oscillatory behavior (1967) and pinching (1963). After over seventy scientific research papers, she invented a gigacycle range signal generator. This invention generates repeating and non-repeating electronic signals used commonly in microwaves, arbitrary waveforms, pitch, and the like.
She received the following Honors as a physicist:
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Performance Excellence Award, Boeing Co.
- Award of Excellence, Carborundum Company 1976
- Chairman's Award, American Association of Engineering Societies 1986
- Honorary Doctor of Science: New York Polytechnic Institute 1979, University of Southern California 1984
- Honorary Doctor of Law: Bates College 1980