Caroline Herzenberg
| Caroline Herzenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 25, 1932 East Orange, New Jersey |
| Residence | Hyde Park, Chicago |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Low energy nuclear physics, Mössbauer spectrometry |
| Alma mater | MIT, University of Chicago |
| Thesis | (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel K. Allison |
| Spouse | Leonardo Herzenberg (deceased) |
| Children | Karen Ann Herzenberg and Catherine Stuart Herzenberg |
Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (born March 25, 1932) is an American physicist.
Caroline Herzenberg was born Caroline Stuart Littlejohn to Caroline Dorothea Schulze and Charles Frederick Littlejohn on March 25, 1932 in East Orange, New Jersey. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, her parents decided to move to Oklahoma City Oklahoma to join his sister, Hilda Littlejohn Will and her family. Herzenberg grew up and attended public school in Oklahoma City. In 1961 she married Leonardo Herzenberg and is the mother of two grown children, Karen Ann Herzenberg and Catherine Stuart Herzenberg. She and her husband live in Hyde Park, Chicago.
After winning the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in high school, Herzenberg attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was one of very few women students at M.I.T. at that time. She was awarded a bachelor's degree by M.I.T. in 1953.
For graduate study she went on to the University of Chicago. She took a class with Enrico Fermi and subsequently conducted some calculations for him. She went on to receive her master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1955. For doctoral work she turned to Samuel K. Allison, who became her thesis advisor. Her thesis research, in experimental physics, was in low energy nuclear physics, and was conducted on the 3 Mev Van de Graaff accelerator in the Research Institutes. She was awarded a PhD in 1958 by the University of Chicago.
Herzenberg continued at the University of Chicago for another year as a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate at the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago. She then went on to become a research associate in the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In 1961 Herzenberg became an assistant professor of physics at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she worked for 5 years as Director of the High Voltage Laboratory and the Van de Graaff accelerator, and directed experimental nuclear physics and Mössbauer research programs, supervising MS and PhD theses and undergraduate and graduate physics instruction.
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