What is Gertrude Rempfer?
'''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]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-02-19|title=PSU Magazine Fall 1990|url=https://content.library.pdx.edu/files/PDXScholar/PSU-Magazine-Fall-1990/17/|access-date=2024-03-09|website=web.archive.org|archive-date=2024-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219143715/https://content.library.pdx.edu/files/PDXScholar/PSU-Magazine-Fall-1990/17/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> She won a Howard Vollum Award. == Life == She graduated from Queen Anne High School. She studied forestry but switched to physics, at the [[University of Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-03-15|title=Women's History Month and MSA {{!}} Microscopy Today {{!}} Cambridge Core|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-today/article/womens-history-month-and-msa/ECD1ECE848D27DBE60551866F8E52AE4|access-date=2024-03-09|website=web.archive.org|archive-date=2022-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315020049/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-today/article/womens-history-month-and-msa/ECD1ECE848D27DBE60551866F8E52AE4|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Oregonian/OregonLive|first=Kelly House {{!}} The|date=2011-11-28|title=Portland State University to celebrate Gertrude Rempfer, pioneering physicist who died at 99|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2011/11/portland_state_university_to_c.html|access-date=2024-03-09|website=oregonlive|language=en}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rempfer, Gertrude}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:Ame