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About J. Virginia Lincoln
- Jeannette Virginia Lincoln (September 7, 1915 – August 1, 2003) was an American physicist.The daughter of Rush B.
- Lincoln, a major general in the US Army Air Forces, and Jeannette Bartholomew Lincoln, a chemistry professor, she was born in Ames, Iowa.
- She studied at Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in physics from Wellesley College.
- She received a master's degree from Iowa State University in 1938.
- From 1935 to 1942, she was an instructor in household equipment at Iowa State.
- In 1942, she began work in the Interservice Radio Propagation Laboratory (later renamed the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory or CRPL) at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, D.C.; she transferred to the NBS in Boulder, Colorado when the CRPL was moved there in 1954.
- In 1959, she became Chief of Radio Warning Services.
- In the same year, she was the only woman in the US delegation to the International Geophysical Year meeting in Moscow.
- In 1966, she became director for the World Data Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
- She later became the Solar-Terrestrial Physics division chief for NOAA's National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center.
- She retired from federal service in 1980.Lincoln developed a statistical method for predicting sunspots which is still in use today.
- In 1973, she received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Distinguished Service.
- She was also named to the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.Lincoln died in Boulder at the age of 87, August 1, 2003.
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