Elizabeth Laird (physicist)

Elizabeth Laird
Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, from the 1910 Mount Holyoke College yearbook
Born	(1874-12-06)December 6, 1874 Owen Sound, Ontario
Died	March 3, 1969(1969-03-03) (aged 94) London, Ontario
Education	University of Toronto, Bryn Mawr College
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Workplaces	Mount Holyoke College, Cavendish Laboratory
Thesis	The absorption spectrum of chlorine (1901)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Stanley Mackenzie

Elizabeth Rebecca Laird (December 6, 1874 – March 3, 1969) was a Canadian physicist who chaired the physics department at Mount Holyoke College for nearly four decades. She was the first woman accepted by Sir J. J. Thomson to conduct research at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. In her later life she studied electromagnetic radiation for military and medical applications.

Asteroid (16192) Laird is named in her honour.