Lincoln, J. Virginia, 1915-2003.

J. Virginia Lincoln was born in 1915, graduated from Wellesley College in 1936 and Iowa State in 1938. As a physicist, she joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1942 and moved to Boulder, Colorado and the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory in 1954. She was a space weather pioneer and became known for her work with A. G. McNish and "sunspot cycle predictions." Lincoln continued to work in Boulder and was Chief of several different environmental agencies until she retired in 1981. J. Virginia Lincoln died in Boulder in 2003.

From the description of J. Virginia Lincoln collection, 1920-1939. (US Air Force Academy). WorldCat record id: 688639700