  Physicist Isabelle Stone forged ahead in what was largely a men's profession
in the early 1900s. She is credited as the first woman in the United States to
obtain a Ph.D. in physics, one of the two women founders of the American
Physical Society, and one of only two women to attend the first International
Congress of Physics. Hers is the story of an unmarried, educated woman doing
scientific research, living and working abroad, and providing educational
stepping stones for more women to go to college. It starts with the electric
resistance of thin films in Chicago and becomes a journey in teaching women up
and down the east coast, across the Atlantic, and back again.
