Dixy Lee Ray
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Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was
Dixy Lee Ray
At the age of 12, Ray became the youngest girl to summit Mount Rainier.
Dixy Lee Ray presents the Pacific Science Center's "Arches of Science" award to Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg in 1968. At the time Seaborg was Chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, a position Ray would hold several years later.
Ray speaking with Robert Sachs, director of the Argonne National Laboratory, c. 1974
On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m., Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States, experienced a catastrophic explosive eruption which had a volcanic explosivity index of 5. It was the fir
Dixy Lee Ray
…1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy. A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in biology, Ray became an…
The eruption column, May 18, 1980
Photo showing the bulge growing due to a cryptodome on April 27
Lakes nearest to Mount St. Helens have been partly covered with fallen trees since the eruption. This photograph was taken in 2012.
The North Fork Toutle River valley filled with landslide deposits