Did you know, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski?
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski was born in Chicago on June 3, 1993,she is an American physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics.She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American & Chicago Public Schools alumna." She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University. She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998, and graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010.
Gonzalez Pasterski holds an active interest in aviation. She took her first flying lesson in 2003, co-piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2005 and started building a kit aircraft by 2006. Her first U.S. solo flight was in that kit aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard.
Gonzalez Pasterski named among her scientific heroes Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and said she was drawn to physics by Jeff Bezos. She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As a sophomore, Gonzalez Pasterski worked on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Gonzalez Pasterski is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in high energy physics under the supervision of Andrew Strominger from whom she was given her academic freedom in the Spring of 2015 based upon Pasterski et al's 2014 discovery of the "spin memory effect" which may be used to detect/verify the net effects of gravitational waves. After being granted that academic freedom, she would complete the Pasterski-Strominger-Zhiboedov Triangle for EM in a 2015 solo paper that Stephen Hawking cited in early 2016.
Great women :)