Book contents
- Women in the History of Quantum Physics
- Women in the History of Quantum Physics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Spectrum of He+ as a Proving Ground for Bohr’s Model of the Atom: A Legacy of Williamina Fleming’s Astrophysical Discovery
- 2 H. Johanna van Leeuwen, the Other Scientist behind the Bohr–Van Leeuwen Theorem
- 3 Hertha Sponer, Maven of Quantum Spectroscopy
- 4 Angular and Career Momentum: What Lucy Mensing Contributed to Physics and Why She Left the Field
- 5 Discouraging Jane: Dewey Among the Lucky Generation of US Physicists
- 6 Laura Chalk and the Stark Effect
- 7 Elizabeth Monroe Boggs: From Quantum Chemistry to the Manhattan Project
- 8 Excelsior! John Wheeler, Katharine Way, and the Role of Women in the Exploration of the Microcosm
- 9 Sonja Ashauer from São Paulo to Cambridge: A Journey to Quantum Electrodynamics
- 10 Untangling Entanglement History: Early Quantum Contributions of Chien-Shiung Wu
- 11 From Quantum Physics to Ethics: Grete Hermann on Heisenberg’s Cut
- 12 Women Take the Lead: A Physics Laboratory Under the Dictatorship in Portugal, 1940s–1960s
- 13 Carolyn Parker’s Electronic Frequencies
- 14 The Chew–Low–Salzman Method and Freda Friedman Salzman: A Physicist Between Nuclear and Social Interactions
- 15 Out of the Ivory Tower: Maria Lluïsa Canut and X-Ray Crystallography
- 16 Ana María Cetto Kramis: Light in Quantum Mechanics and Open Science
- Index
- References
16 - Ana María Cetto Kramis: Light in Quantum Mechanics and Open Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2025
Book contents
- Women in the History of Quantum Physics
- Women in the History of Quantum Physics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Spectrum of He+ as a Proving Ground for Bohr’s Model of the Atom: A Legacy of Williamina Fleming’s Astrophysical Discovery
- 2 H. Johanna van Leeuwen, the Other Scientist behind the Bohr–Van Leeuwen Theorem
- 3 Hertha Sponer, Maven of Quantum Spectroscopy
- 4 Angular and Career Momentum: What Lucy Mensing Contributed to Physics and Why She Left the Field
- 5 Discouraging Jane: Dewey Among the Lucky Generation of US Physicists
- 6 Laura Chalk and the Stark Effect
- 7 Elizabeth Monroe Boggs: From Quantum Chemistry to the Manhattan Project
- 8 Excelsior! John Wheeler, Katharine Way, and the Role of Women in the Exploration of the Microcosm
- 9 Sonja Ashauer from São Paulo to Cambridge: A Journey to Quantum Electrodynamics
- 10 Untangling Entanglement History: Early Quantum Contributions of Chien-Shiung Wu
- 11 From Quantum Physics to Ethics: Grete Hermann on Heisenberg’s Cut
- 12 Women Take the Lead: A Physics Laboratory Under the Dictatorship in Portugal, 1940s–1960s
- 13 Carolyn Parker’s Electronic Frequencies
- 14 The Chew–Low–Salzman Method and Freda Friedman Salzman: A Physicist Between Nuclear and Social Interactions
- 15 Out of the Ivory Tower: Maria Lluïsa Canut and X-Ray Crystallography
- 16 Ana María Cetto Kramis: Light in Quantum Mechanics and Open Science
- Index
- References
Summary
Ana María Cetto Kramis (born 1946) studied physics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and biophysics at Harvard University. As a faculty member back in Mexico, she spent over half a century delving into the fundamentals of quantum physics, with a singular focus on its stochastic interpretation. In addition to her theoretical work, she founded Latindex and has become a key figure in the open access movement. She has also had a long and influential contribution to international scientific cooperation. Her professional and personal journeys culminate with the dynamization of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technologies 2025, aiming to shed light on her understanding of quantum science and of science as a whole. This chapter is mostly based on an oral history, which is here also revisited as a historiographical methodology from its early use at the origins of the history of quantum physics.
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- Women in the History of Quantum PhysicsBeyond <i>Knabenphysik</i>, pp. 430 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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