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Black and white photo of Elizabeth Laird. She is seen in 3/4 profile, wearing academic regalia. A lace collar is visible on her neck, just above the robe. Her brown hair is pulled back, and she is looking directly at the camera.

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Black and white photo of Elizabeth Laird. She is seen in 3/4 profile, wearing academic regalia. A lace collar is visible on her neck, just above the robe. Her brown hair is pulled back, and she is looking directly at the camera.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 15:41:46 UTC Robert McNees

Physicist Elizabeth Laird was born #OTD in 1874. Over the course of her career she worked on spectroscopy, soft X-rays, and radiation absorption by tissue.
In 1909 she became the first woman accepted by J.J. Thomson to do research at Cavendish Laboratory.
Image: Mount Holyoke

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