Science and Education

Women and Physics by Laura McCulloch is a concise addition to the IOP Science Concise Physics series. McCullough is an award winning Professor of Physics at UW Stout, and served for several years as the chair of that university’s Chemistry and Physics Department. Her research focuses on physics education, and gender and science. By both chance and design, I know a lot of people in this area, and I’m pretty sure IOP Science could not have had a better choice in authors for this important book. How do you make a physicist? Well, you start with a child, and poke at it for 25 year or so until it…