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- ↑ biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Ellen Gould Zweibel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physicist Recipient, Ellen G. Zweibel, citation, APS website
- ↑ 2021 NAS Election, National Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2021-04-26
