Helen Freedhoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helen Freedhoff

Canadian theoretical physicist

Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1940

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 11-Jun-2017

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms.
She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London.
Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time.