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  1. May 30, 2022 · When Ann Nelson died in a tragic hiking accident in […] Search for: ... An earlier version of this story stated that Nelson was the first professor on the path to tenure in the Stanford physics ...

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  2. Aug 6, 2019 · Submitted by Shane D Debolt on August 6, 2019 - 11:11am. Professor Ann Nelson was backpacking with friends and family in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness when she slipped and fell down a steep gully. Professor Nelson was a renowned theoretical physicist who specialized in elementary particle physics, and had been at the University of Washington ...

  3. Aug 8, 2019 · Ann Nelson regularly frequented the UW gym and is the single physics professor I’ve ever caught doing dead lifts in the gym. Hence, Ann was the genius physicist that rose up in a male-dominated workplace, who climbed mountains, advocated for marginalized groups, had two kids—and was dead lifting well into her fifties!

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  4. Aug 22, 2019 · The theoretical particle physicist Ann Nelson, who died on August 4 at age 61, was a font of brilliant ideas and a champion of ending discrimination in the field. Ann Nelson hiking last year in The Enchantments, an area in the Cascades in Washington State. Courtesy of David Kaplan. The Standard Model of particle physics enumerates all the ...

  5. Ann Elizabeth Nelson, ’80, who taught at the U. of Washington, died August 4 when she fell while hiking with her husband and friends in the Central Cascades. She was 61. In a field dominated by men, Nelson never let her gender inhibit her passion for science. As a high school senior in Lafayette, Calif., she enrolled in physics classes at UC ...

  6. Ann Nelson. This memorial obituary was originally published by the Seattle Times, (2019) here. Ann Nelson loved a challenge. From becoming an accomplished physicist in a field dominated by men to summiting mountains, Dr. Nelson spent her life focused on the next goal — and on giving others a hand along the way.

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  8. Aug 13, 2019 · Renowned theoretical physicist and UW professor Ann Nelson passed away Sunday, Aug. 4, after suffering a fatal fall while backpacking with family and friends in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area