Helen Freedhoff
Helen Freedhoff | |
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Helen Freedhoff, 1961 | |
| Born | Helen Sarah Goodman January 9, 1940 |
| Died | June 10, 2017 (aged 77) |
| Education | Harbord Collegiate Institute |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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| Spouse | Stephen Freedhoff |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
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| Thesis | Theory of dipole-dipole interaction in coherent radiation processes (1965) |
| Notable students | Terry Rudolph (PBR theorem) |
Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London. Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time.