Mildred Allen-She was an American physicist. Mildred Allen was born in Sharon, Massachusetts to MIT professor C. Frank Allen and Caroline Hadley Allen. She had one younger sister, Margaret Allen Anderson. Allen graduated from Vassar College in 1916 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She completed her doctoral studies in physics in 1922 at Clark University with Arthur Gordon Webster, with thesis research done at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Allen taught at Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Oberlin Colleges and undertook post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. She began working with William Francis Gray Swann at Yale and continued work under his direction with the Bartol Research Foundation between 1927 and 1930. She also did research at Harvard University before becoming a professor at Mount Holyoke, where she taught until her retirement in 1959. For nearly 20 years, starting in the early 1960s, Allen collaborated with Erwin Saxl, an industrial physicist living in Harvard, Massachusetts, on experiments with a torsion pendulum. Allen and Saxl reported anomalous changes in the period of a torsion pendulum during a solar eclipse in 1970 and hypothesized that "gravitational theory needs to be modified". Their measurements, and similar anomalies earlier observed by Allais using a paraconical pendulum, have not been accepted by the physics community as in need of unconventional explanation, and subsequent experiments have not succeeded in reproducing the results.
Her obituary-
Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Union-News (Springfield, MA) - Tuesday, November 6, 1990
Deceased Name: Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics
Mildred Allen, 96, of Woodbridge Terrace, a professor-emeritus of physics at Mount Holyoke College, died on Sunday in Holyoke Hospital.
She was a visiting lecturer at Vassar College from 1916, and went to Mount Holyoke in 1918. Specializing in mechanics, electricity, heat and optics, she taught at the college until 1920.
From 1921 until 1923, she was an instructor of physics at Wellesley College in Boston.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1923, taught there until 1926, and then worked as a research instructor at Oberlin College from 1930 until 1931.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1933. She was a full professor, and chaired the physics department until her retirement in 1958.
She was a secretary of the college's chapter of Sigma Xi.
She returned to Oberlin College in 1960 as a lecturer in physics, and pursued her research interests. At the age of 80, she presented a paper, "Mass in Motion," at the New England meeting of the American Physical Society.
During her career, she was published in such scientific journals as Science, Physics Today, the American Journal of Physics, and Physics Review.
Born in Sharon, she lived for several years in South Hadley.
She received her bachelor's degree in 1916 from Vassar College, where she later was an active alumnae volunteer and class scribe.
She received a master's degree in 1917, and her doctorate in 1922 from Clark University. While at Clark, she held the Vassar graduate fellowship and the Mary Richardson and Lydia Pratt Babbitt fellowship.
She studied and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1922, at the University of Chicago in 1923, and at Yale University from 1926 until 1927. From 1931 until 1933, she studied at Harvard University, and was later a research fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute from 1927 until 1930.
She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
She enjoyed traveling, and reported on a total eclipse off the African coast in 1973 for a Mount Holyoke publication.
She leaves a sister, Margaret Anderson of Needham.
A graveside service will be conducted on Thursday morning at Forest Hill Cemetery in Boston. There are no calling hours.
Ryder Funeral Home is in charge.
Her obituary-
Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Union-News (Springfield, MA) - Tuesday, November 6, 1990
Deceased Name: Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics
Mildred Allen, 96, of Woodbridge Terrace, a professor-emeritus of physics at Mount Holyoke College, died on Sunday in Holyoke Hospital.
She was a visiting lecturer at Vassar College from 1916, and went to Mount Holyoke in 1918. Specializing in mechanics, electricity, heat and optics, she taught at the college until 1920.
From 1921 until 1923, she was an instructor of physics at Wellesley College in Boston.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1923, taught there until 1926, and then worked as a research instructor at Oberlin College from 1930 until 1931.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1933. She was a full professor, and chaired the physics department until her retirement in 1958.
She was a secretary of the college's chapter of Sigma Xi.
She returned to Oberlin College in 1960 as a lecturer in physics, and pursued her research interests. At the age of 80, she presented a paper, "Mass in Motion," at the New England meeting of the American Physical Society.
During her career, she was published in such scientific journals as Science, Physics Today, the American Journal of Physics, and Physics Review.
Born in Sharon, she lived for several years in South Hadley.
She received her bachelor's degree in 1916 from Vassar College, where she later was an active alumnae volunteer and class scribe.
She received a master's degree in 1917, and her doctorate in 1922 from Clark University. While at Clark, she held the Vassar graduate fellowship and the Mary Richardson and Lydia Pratt Babbitt fellowship.
She studied and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1922, at the University of Chicago in 1923, and at Yale University from 1926 until 1927. From 1931 until 1933, she studied at Harvard University, and was later a research fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute from 1927 until 1930.
She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
She enjoyed traveling, and reported on a total eclipse off the African coast in 1973 for a Mount Holyoke publication.
She leaves a sister, Margaret Anderson of Needham.
A graveside service will be conducted on Thursday morning at Forest Hill Cemetery in Boston. There are no calling hours.
Ryder Funeral Home is in charge.
Mildred Allen-She was an American physicist. Mildred Allen was born in Sharon, Massachusetts to MIT professor C. Frank Allen and Caroline Hadley Allen. She had one younger sister, Margaret Allen Anderson. Allen graduated from Vassar College in 1916 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She completed her doctoral studies in physics in 1922 at Clark University with Arthur Gordon Webster, with thesis research done at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Allen taught at Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Oberlin Colleges and undertook post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago and at Yale University. She began working with William Francis Gray Swann at Yale and continued work under his direction with the Bartol Research Foundation between 1927 and 1930. She also did research at Harvard University before becoming a professor at Mount Holyoke, where she taught until her retirement in 1959. For nearly 20 years, starting in the early 1960s, Allen collaborated with Erwin Saxl, an industrial physicist living in Harvard, Massachusetts, on experiments with a torsion pendulum. Allen and Saxl reported anomalous changes in the period of a torsion pendulum during a solar eclipse in 1970 and hypothesized that "gravitational theory needs to be modified". Their measurements, and similar anomalies earlier observed by Allais using a paraconical pendulum, have not been accepted by the physics community as in need of unconventional explanation, and subsequent experiments have not succeeded in reproducing the results.
Her obituary-
Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Union-News (Springfield, MA) - Tuesday, November 6, 1990
Deceased Name: Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics
Mildred Allen, 96, of Woodbridge Terrace, a professor-emeritus of physics at Mount Holyoke College, died on Sunday in Holyoke Hospital.
She was a visiting lecturer at Vassar College from 1916, and went to Mount Holyoke in 1918. Specializing in mechanics, electricity, heat and optics, she taught at the college until 1920.
From 1921 until 1923, she was an instructor of physics at Wellesley College in Boston.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1923, taught there until 1926, and then worked as a research instructor at Oberlin College from 1930 until 1931.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1933. She was a full professor, and chaired the physics department until her retirement in 1958.
She was a secretary of the college's chapter of Sigma Xi.
She returned to Oberlin College in 1960 as a lecturer in physics, and pursued her research interests. At the age of 80, she presented a paper, "Mass in Motion," at the New England meeting of the American Physical Society.
During her career, she was published in such scientific journals as Science, Physics Today, the American Journal of Physics, and Physics Review.
Born in Sharon, she lived for several years in South Hadley.
She received her bachelor's degree in 1916 from Vassar College, where she later was an active alumnae volunteer and class scribe.
She received a master's degree in 1917, and her doctorate in 1922 from Clark University. While at Clark, she held the Vassar graduate fellowship and the Mary Richardson and Lydia Pratt Babbitt fellowship.
She studied and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1922, at the University of Chicago in 1923, and at Yale University from 1926 until 1927. From 1931 until 1933, she studied at Harvard University, and was later a research fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute from 1927 until 1930.
She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
She enjoyed traveling, and reported on a total eclipse off the African coast in 1973 for a Mount Holyoke publication.
She leaves a sister, Margaret Anderson of Needham.
A graveside service will be conducted on Thursday morning at Forest Hill Cemetery in Boston. There are no calling hours.
Ryder Funeral Home is in charge.
Her obituary-
Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Union-News (Springfield, MA) - Tuesday, November 6, 1990
Deceased Name: Mildred Allen, 96, professor of physics
Mildred Allen, 96, of Woodbridge Terrace, a professor-emeritus of physics at Mount Holyoke College, died on Sunday in Holyoke Hospital.
She was a visiting lecturer at Vassar College from 1916, and went to Mount Holyoke in 1918. Specializing in mechanics, electricity, heat and optics, she taught at the college until 1920.
From 1921 until 1923, she was an instructor of physics at Wellesley College in Boston.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1923, taught there until 1926, and then worked as a research instructor at Oberlin College from 1930 until 1931.
She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1933. She was a full professor, and chaired the physics department until her retirement in 1958.
She was a secretary of the college's chapter of Sigma Xi.
She returned to Oberlin College in 1960 as a lecturer in physics, and pursued her research interests. At the age of 80, she presented a paper, "Mass in Motion," at the New England meeting of the American Physical Society.
During her career, she was published in such scientific journals as Science, Physics Today, the American Journal of Physics, and Physics Review.
Born in Sharon, she lived for several years in South Hadley.
She received her bachelor's degree in 1916 from Vassar College, where she later was an active alumnae volunteer and class scribe.
She received a master's degree in 1917, and her doctorate in 1922 from Clark University. While at Clark, she held the Vassar graduate fellowship and the Mary Richardson and Lydia Pratt Babbitt fellowship.
She studied and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1922, at the University of Chicago in 1923, and at Yale University from 1926 until 1927. From 1931 until 1933, she studied at Harvard University, and was later a research fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute from 1927 until 1930.
She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
She enjoyed traveling, and reported on a total eclipse off the African coast in 1973 for a Mount Holyoke publication.
She leaves a sister, Margaret Anderson of Needham.
A graveside service will be conducted on Thursday morning at Forest Hill Cemetery in Boston. There are no calling hours.
Ryder Funeral Home is in charge.
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