Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist dubbed ‘queen of carbon science,’ dies at 86
Alumna Mildred Dresselhaus remembered as ‘one of America’s foremost physicists’

Mildred Dresselhaus, ‘Queen of carbon science,’ 1930-2017
Dresselhaus, PhD’59, was a model for women and scientists everywhere.
UChicago Magazine
Two researchers win highest U.S. honor
Alumna Mildred Dresselhaus, who did pioneering research on carbon science, to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
AAAS/Science
These Women Should Win a Nobel Prize in Physics
Alumnae Mildred Dresselhaus, Deborah Jin mentioned as worthy of breaking women’s 50-year drought in winning Nobel Prize in Physics
Slate