Rita G. Lerner
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
Rita 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
Lerner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.[8]
References
- ^ 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), )
- Burnett, K. (November 1991), doi:10.1080/09500349114552471)
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- Lindsay, R. Bruce (August 1981), doi:10.1121/1.386720)
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- Schubert, J. (August 1984), doi:10.1002/phbl.19840400810)
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- ^ "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