Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove | |
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Berlin, Germany | |
Died | August 8, 2012 | (aged 86)
Alma mater |
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Known for | Nuclear spectroscopy |
Spouse | Walter Selove m. 1955 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nuclear physics |
Institutions | |
Doctoral advisor | Hugh Richards |
Notable students | Gloria Lubkin (MA, Boston University, 1957) |
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (February 13, 1926 – August 8, 2012) was an American
Early life and education
She was born Fay Ajzenberg on 13 February 1926 in
They were bankrupted by the
Ajzenberg graduated from
At Wisconsin she worked with nuclear physicist Hugh Richards who was studying nuclear reaction energies and classifying the energy levels of light atoms.
Physics career
She did
Following graduation, Ajzenberg was a lecturer at Smith College and a visiting fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was hired as an assistant professor of physics at Boston University, but the dean lowered her salary 15 percent when he learned Ajzenberg was a woman. Ajzenberg refused the position until the initial salary was restored.[4]
While at Boston University, she met Harvard University physicist Walter Selove and they married in December 1955.[4] One of her graduate students was Gloria Lubkin, who graduated in 1957 with an MA in Nuclear Physics, and would later become the first female editor in chief of Physics Today. In 2013, Lubkin wrote Ajzenberg's obituary as her final story for the magazine.[10] In 1962, using the bubble chamber at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Selove discovered a meson he named the fayon (f2) after her.[11] Ajzenberg-Selove and her husband were honored with a symposium about their work at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.[12] Selove died in 2010.[11]
In the 1960s, she worked at
Publications
In 1994, she published a memoir, A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist.[12]
Honors and awards
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Chair, American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics (1973-1974)
- Award for Distinguished Teaching, Christian and Mary Lindbeck Foundation (1991)
- Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, American Physical Society (1999)
- Distinguished Alumni Fellow Award, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics (2001)
- National Medal of Science (2007)
References
- ^ "Penn Physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Among Eight Scientists to Receive the 2007 National Medal of Science | Penn News". Upenn.edu. 2008-08-26. Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
- ^ "Physics professor Ajzenberg-Selove; honored by U.S. - Philly.com". Articles.philly.com. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
- ^ "Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay (1926—)", citing Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay. A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-27382-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Shalvi, Alice. "Fay Ajzenberg-Selove." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved July 5, 2011
- ^ .
- ^ Anleitner, Joselyn; Kaitlyn Beyer; Candyce Boyd (2011). "Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (Interview audio and transcript)". A Series of Firsts: Women in Michigan Science and Engineering, 1940-1985. University of Michigan Women in Science & Engineering. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ "On the Death of Professor Emeritus Hugh T. Richards" (PDF). University of Wisconsin. 7 May 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay. A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1994. Print. "I explained carefully to Louis that I was a Jew and an atheist..."
- ISSN 0031-9228.
- ^ .
- ^ ISBN 9781598841589.
External links
- Fay Ajzenberg-Selove at Penn Physics & Astronomy at the Wayback Machine (archived February 2, 2012)
- Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
- Jewish Women's Archive
- 2008 interview