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throughout her career. She became a member of the AAPT in 1943 and served as its first woman president (1966–67). She also co-edited the organization's official history. In addition, Phillips served on the Commission in College Physics (1960–68) and on the advisory board of the School of Mathematics
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As a leading physics educator of her era, Phillips received numerous citations and awards for her contributions to science education. Phillips is especially noted for developing and implementing a curriculum for teaching physics and co-authoring two textbooks in the 1950s for collegiate physics
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Phillips became the first recipient of the Melba Newell Phillips Medal, an award that the AAPT established in 1981. The medal is periodically presented to AAPT members "who have provided creative leadership and dedicated service that resulted in exceptional contributions to
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In 2003 the American Physical Society awarded its Joseph Burton Forum Award to Phillips for her contributions to science education, her role in founding the Federation of American Scientists, and as service as a role model "of a principled
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in Indiana, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1926. Afterwards, Phillips taught at her former high school for two years before entering graduate school.
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In an era when few women were working as scientists, Phillips became a leading science educator and spent the majority of her career as a professor of physics.
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award, one of six women to receive its research fellowships for the 1936–37 academic year. Phillips's research focused on application of
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In 1988 she was the recipient of Vanderbilt University's Guy and Rebecca Forman Award for Outstanding Teaching in Undergraduate Physics.
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from the American Association of Physics Teachers; she was also the recipient of the AAPT's Distinguished Service Citation in 1963.
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Phillips earned a master's degree in physics from Battle Creek College in Michigan in 1928 and a doctorate in physics (PhD) at the
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Phillips graduated from Union High School in 1922 at the age of fifteen. Intending to become an educator, Phillips studied
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in the United States led to widespread accusations of disloyalty. As part of this activity, Senator McCarran headed the
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In 1987 Brooklyn College publicly and personally apologized to Phillips for her dismissal from the College in 1952.
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After she retired from the University of Chicago in 1972, Phillips continued teaching as a visiting professor at
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Study Group (1964–67). For her service to the field of science education, Phillips was elected a fellow of the
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which called Phillips to testify. Phillips worked not only with Robert Oppenheimer on nuclear physics and the
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Phillips returned to teaching in 1957, when she became associate director of a teacher-training institute at
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courses to non-science majors. She also made laboratory work part of its curriculum. Phillips retired as a
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Oppenheimer, J. R.; Phillips, M. (15 September 1935). "Note on the Transmutation Function for Deuterons".
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On Teaching Physics: Reprints of American Journal of Physics Articles from the First Half Century of AAPT
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for Women (1937–38). Phillips also held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California and at
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rights when asked about other topics, including questions about whether she was a member of the
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Radiation Laboratory. In 1945, while teaching at Brooklyn College, Phillips helped organize the
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In 1981 Phillips received the Karl Taylor Compton Award from the American Institute of Physics.
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Fellow, American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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While unemployed, Phillips lived on her modest savings and co-authored two science textbooks:
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Melba Phillips papers, 1922-1999 (bulk 1950-1985), Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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courses. She also wrote and edited works history of physics and the history of the
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to the study of nuclear physics. Before accepting a full-time faculty position at
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on November 8, 2004, at the age of ninety-seven, at Amber Manor nursing home in
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Commission, a judiciary subcommittee investigating internal security during the
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as a professor of physics. Under her guidance the university began teaching
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from the University of Chicago in 1972, but continued to teach elsewhere.
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judiciary subcommittee's investigation on internal security during the
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Grinstein, Louise S.; Rose K. Rose; Miriam H. Rafailovich (1993).
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In 1997 Brooklyn College established a scholarship in her honor.
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Melba Phillips and Herman William Koch eating ice cream at an
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History of Physics II: The Life and Times of Modern Physics
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in 1933. She was one of the first doctoral students of
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which led to her dismissal from her professorship at
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Weart and Melba Phillips (1985). 894: 628:Principles of Electrodynamics and Relativity 530:(1972–75) and at the graduate school of the 375:in 1938, Phillips worked as a fellow at the 234:(1957–62) before joining the faculty at the 783: 781: 779: 777: 775: 773: 771: 769: 767: 765: 624:, co-authored with Wolfgang Panofsky (1957) 609: 269: 1164:. American Association of Physics Teachers 1077: 1075: 1073: 304:, who later became scientific head of the 40: 1555:"Oral History Interviews: Melba Phillips" 1538: 1023: 1021: 1019: 1017: 1015: 1013: 1011: 1672:Fellows of the American Physical Society 1408:Sullivan, Patricia (November 17, 2004). 1372:Pike County, Indiana Notables: 1816–2016 869: 867: 865: 863: 762: 748:Pike County, Indiana Notables: 1816–2016 741: 739: 567:American Association of Physics Teachers 513: 471:American Association of Physics Teachers 361:American Association of University Women 264:American Association of Physics Teachers 181:. 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Melba Newell Phillips

Hazleton
Gibson County, Indiana
Petersburg
Indiana
Oakland City University
University of California, Berkeley
Oersted Medal
Brooklyn College
University of Minnesota
Washington University
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor
J. Robert Oppenheimer
physicist
science educator
J. Robert Oppenheimer
University of California, Berkeley
Oppenheimer–Phillips process
nuclei
radioactive
hydrogen
atoms
U.S. Senate
McCarthy era
Brooklyn College
University of Minnesota
Washington University
St. Louis

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