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 Johanna Levelt Sengers, a native of the Netherlands,
received a PhD in physics at the University of
Amsterdam, and joined the National Bureau of Standards and
Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland,
USA) in 1963. Since her retirement in 1995, she has
been a Scientist Emeritus in the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
at NIST. She recently published a book on aspects of the history of her
field of science. She currently co-chairs a panel “Women for Science” of
the InterAcademy Council. The panel will advise the world’s science
academies on attracting, retaining and promoting women in science, engineering
and technology.
Dr. Levelt Sengers holds an honorary
doctorate of the Technical University Delft. She is a correspondent
of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the
National Academy of Sciences. She was the North American
Laureate of the 2003 L’Oréal-UNESCO
Award for Women in Science.
Dr. Levelt Sengers' expertise is in the application of the critical-point
scaling laws to fluids of industrial importance, such as
water and steam in electric power cycles. Dr. Levelt Sengers' expertise
is in the application of the critical-point scaling laws to fluids of industrial
importance, such as water and steam in electric power cycles.
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