Mildred Dresselhaus and Solid State Pedagogy at MIT

@article{Martin2019MildredDA,
  title={Mildred Dresselhaus and Solid State Pedagogy at MIT},
  author={Joseph D. Martin},
  journal={Annalen der Physik},
  year={2019},
  volume={531}
}
Mildred Dresselhaus is known for her influential research on the physics of carbon. Her wide‐ranging influence as a physics teacher, although well‐known to her students, has been less thoroughly examined. Exploring how Dresselhaus grew into her role teaching solid state physics at MIT reveals much about how that subfield evolved. 
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