Jolie Antonia Cizewski (born 1951)[1] is an American nuclear physicist known for her work on high-mass nuclei, including their symmetries, superdeformation, magic numbers, and the r-process.
Her father was a soldier and postal worker, and her mother was a refugee from post-World-War-II Czechoslovakia;[4] neither completed a high school diploma.
[4] After postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Cizewski became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1980.
[5] Instead, discovering that she liked professorial work, she stayed for six years before moving to Rutgers as a tenured associate professor in 1986.
[8] In 2020 she won the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Mentoring Award "for her exceptional commitment to undergraduate and graduate education which has had an enormous and continued impact on the lives of first-generation college students, women in physics, graduate students and early career scientists".