Michelle Frank (Consortium Fellow 2021-2022) is a member of Women in the History of Quantum Physics (WiHQP), which is an international and interdisciplinary team of authors including physicists, historians, philosophers, and writers from ten different countries, universities and institutions -- renowned academics and early-career researchers.
WiHQP is currently producing a peer-reviewed anthology that will be published with an academic press to amplify the history of women's contributions to quantum physics. They are soliciting chapter proposals to expand the number of chapters that focus on women of color and/or women from the Global South. Examples include (but are not limited to) scientists like: Willie Hobbes Moore, Purnima Sinha, Bibha Chowdhuri, Shirley Ann Jackson.
Scholars interested in contributing a chapter about one of these figures, or about a different woman who was important to quantum physics from an underrepresented community, are invited to submit a proposal. WiHQP hopes to hear from you as soon as possible.
Please note: completed chapter drafts for proposed chapters will be due to WiHQP in early November, 2023. Acceptance of new chapters for inclusion and publication will be dependent on approval by the WiHQP Editorial Committee and by the publisher.
The editorial committee has already begun the internal peer-review process for completed chapters. WiHQP plans to provide the publisher with a final, reviewed manuscript by no later than March 1, 2024 so that the anthology can be part of a larger set of initiatives celebrating the 2025 centennial of the birth of quantum mechanics.