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Elizabeth Baranger
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Elizabeth Urey Baranger (née Gertrude Bessie Urey; September 18, 1927 – May 30, 2019) was an American physicist and academic administrator at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research concerned shell model calculations in nuclear physics.
Early life and education
Gertrude Bessie Urey was born on September 18, 1927, in Baltimore, but grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. As the daughter of physical chemist Harold Urey she met many other physicists from the Manhattan Project as a child, including Maria Mayer, who won the Nobel Prize for proposing the shell model of nuclear physics. She was the 1945 valedictorian of Leonia High School, and studied mathematics at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1949.
She earned a PhD in physics at Cornell University in 1954. Her PhD was supervised by Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. While completing her dissertation, she married fellow physicist Michel Baranger, on September 26, 1951, and spent two years as a visiting researcher at the California Ins
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