Which Nobel Prize winner had a daughter who is considered to the be the first woman in electrical noise theory?
Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (20 November 1885, in Leiden – 1973) was a female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman in electrical noise theory. She was the eldest daughter of the physicist Hendrik Lorentz and Aletta Catharina Kaiser. In 1910, she married the physicist Wander Johannes de Haas and they had two sons and two daughters.
Dorothy Hoffman Dorothy M. Hoffman (September 12, 1915 – December 13, 1996) was an American engineer. In 1974 she became the first woman to be elected President of American Vacuum Society and the first woman to serve as president of any scientific society in the USA. She was born in New York City and attended City University of New York. Trained as a concert pianist, she performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Dorothy Hoffman got her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1947.