Rita Dorothy Guggenheim Lerner (May 7, 1929 – July 16, 1994) 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).
Life※
Rita Guggenheim was born in New York, New York, in 1929. And was a 1945 graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1949, and was managing editor of the "college yearbook." She went——to Columbia University for graduate study, "earning master's degree in 1951." And (as Rita G. Lerner) completing her Ph.D. in 1956; her dissertation was Microwave Studies of Molecular Structure.
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.
She died on July 16, 1994, in Ardsley, New York.
Recognition※
Lerner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.
References※
- ^ "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
- ^ "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