Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Renate Wiener Chasman (1932–1977), Ph.D.

Photo: Physics Today Feb. 1978, 31(2): 64

Renate Chasman was a physicist who worked with D. Allan Bromley as a Researcher 1962–1963. Her research at Yale concerned nuclear spectroscopy. Following her Yale appointment, she worked as Assistant Physicist 1963–1967 and then Associate Physicist 1967–1969 and finally as Physicist 1969–1977 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. At BNL her research specialty was accelerator physics. The Renate W. Chasman Award for Women was first given out in 1986 and is still awarded annually to exceptional candidates in STEM.