Melba Newell Phillips (February 1, 1907 - November 8, 2004) was an American physicist and science educator. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the She completed her doctoral studies under J. Robert Oppenheimer and was also known for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on internal security, her actions leading to her dismissal by Brooklyn College. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn New York.
Melba Phillips was born in Hazleton, Indiana. Hazleton is a town in White River Township, Gibson County, Indiana, United States. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union She graduated from high school at the age of 15 and went on to study Mathematics at Oakland City College, Indiana graduating in 1926. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Laney College is a Community college located in Oakland California, next to the Lake Merritt BART station and the Kaiser Convention Center. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. She received a master's degree in physics from Battle Creek College of Michigan in 1928 and her doctorate in physics in 1933 at the University of California, Berkeley. Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs Michigan. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley
Phillips's supervisor at Berkeley was J. Robert Oppenheimer, who would later become scientific head of the Allied atomic bomb effort, the Manhattan Project. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. The World War II Manhattan Project developed the first Nuclear weapon (atomic bomb Together they described the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect explaining the behaviour of accelerated nuclei of radioacive hydrogen atoms in 1935. The Oppenheimer-Phillips process or strip reaction is a special type of Nuclear reaction.
Phillips took up her first teaching position at the Connecticut College for Women in 1937, moving on to Brooklyn College in 1938. Connecticut College is a selective coeducational private liberal arts college located in New London Connecticut. While at the College she helped organize the founding of the Federation of American Scientists in 1945. The Federation of American Scientists ( FAS) is a non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project who felt that scientists engineers During World War II she taught at the University of Minnesota, returning to Brooklyn College after the war. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. Highly regarded as a physics educator, she was fired from the College in 1952 when she refused to testify before the McCarran internal security subcommittee during the McCarthy era. Patrick Anthony McCarran ( August 8, 1876 &ndash September 28, 1954) was a Democratic United States Senator from McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States in a period that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s Brooklyn College publicly apologised to Phillips in 1987.
While unemployed Phillips wrote two textbooks, Principles of Physical Science (1957), with Francis Bonner, and Classical Electricity and Magnetism (1955), with Wolfgang Panofsky. Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of Natural science and Science that study non-living systems in contrast to the biological sciences
Phillips returned to teaching in 1957, when she became associate director of a teacher-training institute at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1962 she took up a position at the University of Chicago, under her guidance the university began teaching physical science courses to non-science majors. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of Natural science and Science that study non-living systems in contrast to the biological sciences She retired from the University in 1972. After retiring in 1972, she worked as a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, until 1975 and at the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, in Beijing in 1980. State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York The University of Science and Technology of China ( USTC;) is a national research University in Hefei, China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences ( CAS) ( formerly known as Academia Sinica (not to be confused with the Republic of China 's (Taiwan Academia
She was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), throughout her career. The American Association of Physics Teachers was founded in 1930 for the purpose of "dissemination of knowledge of physics particularly by way of teaching She was also an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the World 's second largest organization of physicists behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (or AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between Scientists defends scientific freedom encourages
Phillips died of coronary artery disease on November 8, 2004 in a nursing home in Petersburg, Indiana. Coronary artery disease (CAD (or atherosclerotic Heart disease) is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Petersburg is a city in Washington Township, Pike County, Indiana, United States.
Publications
- Principles of Physical Science. 1957. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co
- On Teaching Physics: Reprints of American Journal of Physics Articles from the First Half Century of AAPT (50 Years). 1980. American Association of Physics Teachers ISBN 0-318-41540-2
- Physics History from AAPT Journals. 1985. American Association of Physics Teachers ISBN 0-917853-14-8
- History of Physics (Readings from Physics Today, No 2). 1985. AIP Press ISBN 0-88318-468-0
- The Life and Times of Modern Physics: History of Physics II (Readings from Physics Today, No 5). 1993. AIP Press ISBN 0-88318-846-5
- Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Second Edition. 2005. Dover Publications ISBN 0-486-43924-0
References
- University of Chicago News Office - Melba Phillips, physicist, 1907-2004
- Summary of an Interview with Melba Phillips
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