Jane Blankenship

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Jane Blankenship
Born
Lamar, Texas
Other namesJane Carruth Blankenship
Jane C. Blankenship
Alma mater University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Stanford University
Spouse(s)Carl H. Gibson
Scientific career
Fields Spectroscopy
Institutions Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lockheed Aircraft
Thesis Rotational Analysis of the 0-0 Band of the B2 Σ U -> X2 Σ g Transition of N+ 2 from Shock Tube Spectra. [1]  (1962)

Jane Blankenship won high science honors while at Oak Ridge High School before graduating in June 1958 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a B.S. in chemistry. She worked summers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where her father Dr. Forest F. Blankenship was a physical chemist, and then married Carl H. Gibson, a chemical engineer, and became employed as a spectroscopist for Lockheed Aircraft in Palo Alto, California. [2]

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Biography

Jane Carruth Blankenship and twin sister Elizabeth Ann Blankenship were born on 20 June 1936 in Lamar, Texas to Forrest Farle Blankenship and Margaret Berry Burke. [3] [4]

According to the 1940 U.S. Census, the Blankenship family resided in Lamar, Texas. Forest F. Blankenship, head of household, age 26, worked as a teacher in a public school and reported an annual income of $1800. Margrett Blankenship, her mother, age 29, did not report income or employment. Jane C. Blankenship, age 3, had a twin sister, Elizabeth A. Blankenship, age 3. [5]

Jane Blankenship married Carl Gibson on 28 May 1958 at Roane County, Tennessee. [6]

National attention

In 1961, a news story was written regarding “sex desegregation” in the sciences and a photograph of her was utilized to illustrate the critical significance of inspiring women to pursue careers in science. [7] [8]

As of 2008 Professor David Kaiser of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began offering a graduate level course titled “Cold War Science” that discussed the role women featured during the Cold War and included Jane Blankenship Gibson as an example. [9]

Thesis

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References

  1. 1 2 Gibson, Jane Blankenship. (1962). Rotational Analysis of the 0-0 Band of the B2 Σ U -> X2 Σ g Transition of N+ 2 from Shock Tube Spectra. Physical Sciences Program, Stanford University.
  2. ↑ "Jane Blankenship Gibson". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ↑ Texas Birth Index. (1903-1997). FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VDDX-ZGX  : accessed 8 August 2015), Jane Carruth Blankenship, 20 Jun 1936; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com  : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
  4. ↑ Texas Birth Index. (1903-1997). FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V87J-FW8  : accessed 8 August 2015), Elizabeth Ann Blankenship, 20 Jun 1936; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com  : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
  5. ↑ United States Census. (1940). Database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW2X-N3J  : accessed 8 August 2015), Forest F Blankenship, Ward 1, Paris, Justice Precinct 1, Lamar, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 139-1, sheet 11B, family 237, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 4089.
  6. ↑ Tennessee, State Marriage Index. (1780-2002). FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN47-HQ7  : accessed 8 August 2015), Carl Gibson and Jane Blankenship, 28 May 1958; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com  : 2008); citing p. 356, Roane, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
  7. ↑ Davis, W. (1964). Need Sex Desegregation. The Science News-Letter, 22-22.
  8. ↑ Ewino, Ann. (16 December 1961). Place for Women in Science. Alton Evening Telegraph. Alton, Illinois. p. 17.
  9. ↑ Kaiser, David. (Fall 2008). STS.436 Cold War Science. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 8 August 2015). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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