Michelle D. Johannes
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Michelle D. Johannes is an American volleyball player and physicist. She was a star player on the volleyball team for Mount Holyoke College in the early 1990s, and then became a research physicist for the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where her research concerns theoretical and computational condensed matter physics including the physics of superconductors and electric batteries.
Johannes was a student athlete at Mount Holyoke College, playing volleyball in the New England Women's 8 Conference, a precursor to the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. She was named by the College Sports Information Directors of America to the Academic All-America teams in 1990, 1991, and 1992, and was the 1992 New England Women's 8 Conference player of the year.[1] After graduating from Mount Holyoke in 1993, Johannes spent a year as a volleyball coach before turning to her later career in physics.[2]
Johannes was named to the Mount Holyoke Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.[2] In 2020 she was named to the Academic All-America Hall of Fame.[1] She became the first Hall of Fame inductee from Mount Holyoke and from the Seven Sisters.[3]
