Year Inducted
1978
Career Field
Physics, Astronomy
Highlights
- Physics researcher who has spent 20 field seasons in Antarctica
- One of first women ever allowed to research in Antarctica
- 1979: Recipient of the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States
- 1983: Awarded the Group Achievement Award from NASA
- 2000-03: President of the American Polar Society
- Dreschhoff Peak, a mountain in Antarctica, named for her by the US Board on Geographic Names