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Did You Know?
The
first Lebanese woman president of Beirut College for Women, Dr. Salwa
Nassar (’33), was the first nuclear physicist in Lebanon and the Arab
World, and the eighth woman to receive a PhD in Physics from the
University of California, Berkeley, at the time. An outstanding
mathematics student, she joined the American Junior College for Women
on a scholarship and went on to specialize in physics, also on a
scholarship, at Smith College, and then Berkeley, alongside famous
physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edwin McMillan, and others. Dr.
Nassar introduced several physics courses to the curriculum at AJCW
and, for 10 years, lobbied for the founding of the Lebanese Institute
for Scientific Research, which was finally established in 1962. She
returned to lead her alma mater as its fourth president in 1965,
before succumbing to leukemia two years later.
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