Beth Nordholt

Jane Elizabeth (Beth) Nordholt is an American physicist known for her work in space science on mass spectrometry of the solar wind and rings of Saturn[1][2][3] and the flow of water vapor in the earth's polar wind,[4] and for her work in digital security on devices for quantum key distribution[5][6][7][8] and random number generation.[9][10][11] Until her retirement, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which in 2006 named her as a Laboratory Fellow.[1][12]

Nordholt is the daughter of John B. (Jack) Nordholt Jr., a former Marine and employee of Webster Manufacturing, and of Joanne Pedigo Nordholt.[13] She is a 1976 graduate of Columbian High School in Tiffin, Ohio.[14] She earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 from Rutgers University, and a master's degree in physics in 1983 from the California Institute of Technology.[15]

References
  1. Laboratory Fellows from 1981 to the present, Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2016, retrieved 2020-01-05
  2. "Los Alamos Instrument Yields New Knowledge Of Saturn's Rings", ScienceDaily, October 15, 2004
  3. "Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system", ScienceDaily, June 23, 2011
  4. Friebele, Elaine (1997), "Dehydration", Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 78 (31): 318, Bibcode:1997EOSTr..78S.318F, doi:10.1029/eo078i031p00318-03
  5. Giordani, Adrian (February 15, 2012), "Unbreakable smartphones", ScienceNode
  6. Snodgrass, Roger (May 17, 2013), "Los Alamos team ready for next step on quantum communications project", Santa Fe New Mexican
  7. Scientists demonstrate ultra-secure, long-distance quantum key distribution, phys.org, December 22, 2006
  8. "The solace of quantum: Eavesdropping on secret communications is about to get harder", The Economist, May 25, 2013
  9. Folger, Tim (August 16, 2018), "How Physicists Are Making Sure We Never Run Out of Random Numbers", Discover
  10. Five Los Alamos innovations win R&D 100 Awards, Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2016, retrieved 2020-01-05
  11. Snodgrass, Roger (December 1, 2016), "LANL's Entropy Engine Appears Perfectly Unpredictable", Los Alamos Daily Post
  12. A short history of women at Los Alamos, Los Alamos National Laboratory, March 2018, retrieved 2020-01-05
  13. "Joanne Pedigo Nordholt 1918 – 2017", Daily Press, April 8, 2017 – via Legacy.com
  14. Columbian Yearbook Blue and Gold, 1976, p. 31
  15. Eighty-Ninth Annual Commencement (PDF), California Institute of Technology, June 10, 1983, p. 16, retrieved 2020-01-06


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