- Field
- Theoritical physics
- Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United-States
- Known for
- Electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional systems
- Distinctions
- First African-American woman to earn a doctorate degree (nucelar physics) from the MIT (second in the US), 1973
- Appointed as chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1995
- First woman to be president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1999