Melba Phillips, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American physicist and science educator
Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1907
Place of Birth: Hazleton, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 08-Nov-2004
Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Melba Phillips
- Melba Newell Phillips (February 1, 1907 – November 8, 2004) was an American physicist and pioneer science educator.
- One of the first doctoral students of J.
- Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, Phillips completed her Ph.D.
- in 1933, a time when few women pursued careers in science.
- In 1935 Oppenheimer and Phillips published their description of the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect, an early contribution to nuclear physics that explained the behavior of accelerated nuclei of radioactive hydrogen atoms.
- Phillips was also known for refusing to cooperate with a U.S.
- Senate judiciary subcommittee's investigation on internal security during the McCarthy era that led to her dismissal from her professorship at Brooklyn College, where she was a professor of science from 1938 until 1952.
- (The college publicly and personally apologized to Phillips for the dismissal in 1987.) Phillips also taught at the University of Minnesota (1941–44) and served as associate director of a teacher-training institute at Washington University (1957–62) in St.
- Louis, Missouri, before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago (1962–72) as a professor of physics.
- During her retirement years, Phillips was a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972–75) and taught at the University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Science (1980), in Beijing.
- Phillips was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- In addition to teaching, Phillips co-authored science textbooks and was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers.
- The AAPT established the Melba Newell Phillips Medal in her honor in 1981 to recognize outstanding service to the organization.
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