Elizabeth Monroe Boggs: Further resources
Elizabeth Monroe in 1928.
Courtesy of Pam M. Murphy.
Elizabeth Monroe, at right, and Vung-Yuin Ting were two of the three students to graduate summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1935.
Evening Public Ledger, June 5, 1935.
Social tennis at John Lennard-Jones’s home in Cambridge, circa 1937. From left, John Corner, Elizabeth Monroe, John Lennard-Jones, and Albert Devonshire.
The Papers of Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones, GBR/0014/LEJO/13, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Reproduced with permission.
Fitzhugh Boggs and Elizabeth Monroe at their engagement at Bunrannoch, the Monroe-McNairy house in Manchester, Vermont, June 21, 1941.
Courtesy of Pam M. Murphy.
Elizabeth Monroe Boggs and her son Jonathan David Boggs (1945–2001), shortly after his birth on August 25, 1945, taken at the Horne-Parry Studio of Horne’s department store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Boggs Center archives. Reproduced with permission.
President John Kennedy meeting with the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation in October 1962. Elizabeth Monroe Boggs is the woman with glasses standing to the left of Kennedy.
Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Scholarship
Patrick Charbonneau, “Elizabeth Monroe Boggs: From Quantum Chemistry to the Manhattan Project,” in Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik, edited by Patrick Charbonneau, Michelle Frank, Margriet van der Heijden, and Daniela Monaldi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Archival sources
Elizabeth Monroe papers (unprocessed), Rutgers Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Elizabeth Boggs personal papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/ebpp
Oral history
E. M. Boggs, Transcript of an Oral History Interview of Elizabeth M. Boggs by Thomas A. Underwood on March 13, 1979, in Trenton, NJ, USA. RG12-OHRC-Boggs, Alumnae/i Oral History Collection, Bryn Mawr College Libraries Special Collections, PA, USA. 40p. Transcription by Patrick Charbonneau deposited at Charbonneau, Patrick. (2025). Data from: “Elizabeth Monroe Boggs: From Quantum Chemistry to the Manhattan Project” [Dataset]. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/R4V128X9P
Elizabeth M. Boggs, recorded interview by John F. Stewart, July 17, 1968, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program. https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkoh-emb-01
Elizabeth M. Boggs, recorded interview by William McHugh, February 17, 1969, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program. https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkoh-emb-02
Cite this resource
Patrick Charbonneau, “Elizabeth Monroe Boggs,” Women in the History of Quantum Physics collection, American Institute of Physics, 2026, https://www.aip.org/history/elizabeth-monroe-boggs.