Biography:Marjorie Corcoran
Marjorie Diane Blasius Corcoran (1950 – February 3, 2017) was an American particle physicist who worked as a professor at Rice University.[1]
Biography
Born as Marjorie Blasius, she grew up in Beavercreek, Ohio, and was 1968 co-valedictorian of Beavercreek High School.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1972 from the University of Dayton, graduating summa cum laude,[3] and in the same year married Christopher Corcoran, taking his surname.[4] As a graduate student at Indiana University Bloomington, she began doing high-energy physics research at Fermilab.[1] Her 1977 doctoral dissertation, Measurement of the polarization parameter in proton-proton elastic scattering for beam momenta ranging from 20 GeV/c to 200 GeV/c, was supervised by Homer Neal.[5] She joined the Rice University faculty in 1980.[1]
She died while bicycling on February 3, 2017 in Houston, from a collision with a METRORail train.[1]
Contributions
As a professor at Rice, Corcoran continued her work at Fermilab as part of several large collaborative physics projects including the D0 experiment, KTeV collaboration, and muon-to-electron-conversion experiment.[6]
She also worked in physics outreach activities that included founding the Houston QuarkNet Program for high school physics students and teachers, helping to found a Women in Physics Group at Rice, sending undergraduates to physics conferences, and otherwise encouraging other women to participate in physics.[6]
Awards and honors
In 1992, the American Physical Society (APS) named her as a fellow "for contributions to experiments studying spin asymmetries in hadronic collision".[7] In 2015, the APS listed her as their January 2015 Woman of the Month.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Glenn, Mike (February 3, 2017), "Beloved Rice scientist dies in bicycle-light rail accident", Houston Chronicle, http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Beloved-Rice-scientist-dies-in-bicycle-accident-10907787.php.
- ↑ "485 To Graduate From Beavercreek High Tuesday", Xenia Daily Gazette, May 27, 1968, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/42845356/.
- ↑ "Marjorie D. Blasius Graduates from the University of Dayton", Press release (University of Dayton), May 8, 1972, http://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5047&context=news_rls, retrieved 2017-02-04.
- ↑ "Marriage Applications", Xenia Daily Gazette, August 9, 1972, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10469682/.
- ↑ "Marjorie Diane Blasius Corcoran (1950 – )", Notre Dame Physics Academic Genealogy (University of Notre Dame, Chemistry/Physics Library), March 2, 2012, http://library.nd.edu/physics/resources/genealogy/physics/documents/CorcoranMD.pdf, retrieved 2017-02-04.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "January 2015 Woman of the Month: Marjorie Corcoran, Rice University", 2015 Women Physicist of the Month (American Physical Society), 2015, https://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/month/2015.cfm, retrieved 2017-02-04.
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive, American Physical Society, http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?year=, retrieved 2017-02-04.
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