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Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (July 31,1909 – May 26,1997) was a Russian-born American physicist. She was among some of the first women to received a doctorate in physics in 1929. Later she would hold numerous patents on Electroluminescence and Electro-optics and is cited by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) as being "well known for her innovative work in lasers.”. She was the second woman elected as a fellow of the IEEE.

Education/Career

She started at her education at a high school at Bismark Lyzeum in Berlin. She then furthered her education at the University of Paris in 1926 at the age of 16. She next went to New York University (NYU) where she received both her masters in 1927 and her doctorate in 1929 before the age of 20. When receiving her doctorate it was claimed by New York University that she was the first women to do so in the field of Physics. It was later corrected that there where 26 other women to do so before she was grated her Ph.D in 1929 such as (Mary Chilton Noyes, Caroline Willard Baldwin, and Isabelle Stone).After graduating she worked for the United States Army Signal corps Engineering and Night vision Laboratory. She later began a research fellow at well respected universities such as Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.She later formed a consulting firm with her husband ( Arthur Bramley ) while teaching physics at the University of Oregon.

Personal Life

Born Jenny Rosenthal on July 31, 1909 in Moscow, Russia. She and her parents originated from Lithuania before she left as part of a hostage exchange with the Soviet Union. She adopted the last name of Bramley when she married an engineer by the name of Arthur Bramley. She met her husband while working as a physicist at the United States Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratory in Belmar, NJ. They went on to have three children named Alan, Timothy, and Eleanor. Through her life she was able to pick up three languages including English, Russian, and German witch she was able to use throughout her career to translate between colleagues. She died on May 26, 1997, at age 87 in Lancaster, PA, and is survived by a daughter, son, eleven grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. She was proceeded in death by her husband and one son.

Notable Accomplishments

Some of her most notable accomplishments comes from her work with innovative work with lasers, she held 16 patents for electro-luminescent and electro-optical devices. She also did work researching for the invention of the microwave-pumped, high efficiency lamp that lead development of high efficiency lasers that was critical on her career. She was also involved in more service roles such as being a chair of the Washington Chapter of the Electron Devices Society, chair of the Committee on Opto-electronic Devices, and Session Organizer and chair of a 1972 IEEE International Conference. In her earlier career she did some research on the effect of spacial distribution of nuclear charge on electron-nuclear interaction under Gregory Breit.This reasher would be studied for generation to come, but shortly after finishing the research she left the field .