Rita Dorothy Guggenheim Lerner (May 7, 1929 – July 16, 1994)[1] was an American physicist, librarian, editor, and science communicator who worked for many years at the American Institute of Physics. With George L. Trigg, she was co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Physics (Addison-Wesley, 1981).[2]
Life
editRita Guggenheim was born in New York, New York, in 1929,[1][3] and was a 1945 graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.[4] She earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1949,[3] and was managing editor of the college yearbook.[5] She went to Columbia University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1951 and (as Rita G. Lerner) completing her Ph.D. in 1956;[3] her dissertation was Microwave Studies of Molecular Structure.[6]
She came to the American Institute of Physics in the 1960s, hired as part of a program funded by the National Science Foundation for the improvement of scientific communication.[7]
She died on July 16, 1994, in Ardsley, New York.[1]
Recognition
editLerner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Rita Guggenheim, 1929 – 1994", Hohenems Genealogie: Jüdische Familiengeschichte in Vorarlberg und Tirol, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, retrieved 2021-04-28
- ^ Reviews of Encyclopedia of Physics:
- Bromley, D. Allan (March–April 1981), American Scientist, 69 (2): 222–223, JSTOR 27850361
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Burnett, K. (November 1991), Journal of Modern Optics, 38 (11): 2335–2336, doi:10.1080/09500349114552471
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lang, K. R. (1982), Sky & Telescope, vol. 63, p. 264, Bibcode:1982S&T....63..264L
- Lindsay, R. Bruce (August 1981), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70 (2): 647–648, doi:10.1121/1.386720
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Radke, Martin (July 2006), Physik in unserer Zeit, 37 (4): 197, Bibcode:2006PhuZ...37..197R, doi:10.1002/piuz.200690079, S2CID 122124093
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Schubert, J. (August 1984), Physik Journal, 40 (8): 286, doi:10.1002/phbl.19840400810
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- Bromley, D. Allan (March–April 1981), American Scientist, 69 (2): 222–223, JSTOR 27850361
- ^ a b c "Front Matter", The Library Quarterly, 54 (1), University of Chicago Press: 105–106, January 1984, doi:10.1086/601430
- ^ "In memoriam", Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School, retrieved 2021-04-28
- ^ "Baker Becomes Head Of 'Cliffe's Yearbook", The Crimson, 28 April 1948
- ^ Dissertation Abstracts, vol. 16, University Microfilms, 1956, p. 8
- ^ Doel, Ronald (12 August 1991), "William Havens - Session V", Oral Histories, American Institute of Physics
- ^ Historic Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2021-04-28