Frances Wick

Another female physics graduate student, Louise McDowell, studied at Cornell at the same time as Frances Wick, and the two became friends and research collaborators.

[2][1] While studying organic compounds for her Master's degree, which she received in 1906, Wick focused on the relation between fluorescence and absorption.

[1] After Nichols's death, the Cornell physics department bequeathed to Wick his collection of natural and synthetic luminescent materials.

[4] During World War I, Wick worked on gun sights and radio equipment with the United States Army's Signal Corps where she was likely the first woman scientist hired.

[5][1] In the 1918-19 academic year Wick went on a leave of absence from Vassar College to work in the Cornell physics department as an acting assistant.