Lucy Julia Hayner

Lucy Julia Hayner (1898 - September 23, 1971) was a physicist, known for inventing a circular slide rule in Braille and for her work in atomic and electron physics.

Career

Hayner was born in 1898 in Haynerville, New York, on a farm which her family had owned since 1742.

Following graduation, she studied at the University of Cambridge under the Barnard Fellowship from 1924 to 1925. Upon her return to the United States, Hayner took up a position as a researcher at General Electric where she assisted Irving Langmuir. She stayed at General Electric from 1925 to 1928 researching electron emission in vacuum tubes.

In 1929 Hayner returned to Columbia University. She taught in the Ernest Kempton Adams Laboratory and specialized in teaching the advanced laboratory class.

Personal life Hayner married Bernhard Kurrelmeyer, who was a professor of physics at Brooklyn College. They frequently collaborated on research and published two papers together on the shot effect. Hayner died in 1971 at Doctors Hospital in New York City.

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