Biography:Bunny Cowan Clark
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| Born | September 8, 1935 El Paso, Texas |
| Died | October 2015 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Ohio State University |
Bunny Cowan Clark (September 8, 1935 – October 2015) was an American nuclear physicist and a Professor of Physics at Ohio State University. She attended Kansas State University for both her bachelor's and master's degrees. She earned her doctorate in physics from Wayne State University in 1973.
Personal life
Clark was born on September 8, 1935 in El Paso, Texas.[citation needed]
Career
Clark joined the Physics faculty at Ohio State University in 1981, becoming a professor in 1986.[1] At the 2001 Commencement Address for Ohio State, she spoke candidly about her experience as a woman in physics.
I ignored, I don't know how many comments like: 'Bunny, why don't you go into library science?' 'Bunny you should learn to type.' Physics was not supposed to be a women's work.[1]
Clark was a fierce advocate for women in physics. She helped create the American Physical Society Committee on Status of Women in Physics.[2] Clark quit accepting graduate students after an incident in 1994, in which a female graduate student was dismissed despite receiving higher scores than some of the male students that were retained.[2]
Clark was well known for her generosity. She worked tirelessly to help young faculty members and graduate students secure funding.[2]
If our students needed a refrigerator in their room, she bought them a refrigerator ... She used her money to support people in whatever way seemed necessary if it wasn’t something you could get from the grant or department.
Recognition and legacy
Clark was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, "for contributions to relativistic treatment of nucleon scattering from nuclei".[3]
Clark and her husband Tom created the Bunny and Thomas Clark Scholarship Endowment Fund at the Ohio State University Physics Department. The endowment awards scholarships to both undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on underrepresented groups such as women and minorities.[4] After the deaths of her and her husband, her colleague and friend Robert Mercer[5] and the Mercer Family Foundation established the Bunny C. Clark Student Support Fund.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bunny Clark, Physics". 2019-11-06. https://research.osu.edu/bunny-clark-physics/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Clark, Bunny (June 26, 2007). Interview of Bunny Clark by Judith Ball Fountain. https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/29291.
- ↑ "APS Fellows Nominated by DNP: 1984". https://aps.org/units/dnp/fellowship/index.cfm?year=1984. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedauto2 - ↑ "Legacy of Prof. Bunny Clark featured in ASC News". https://physics.osu.edu/news/legacy-prof.-bunny-clark-featured-asc-news.
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