Ruth Howes

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Ruth Hege Howes (born 1944) [1] is an American nuclear physicist, expert on nuclear weapons, and historian of science, known for her books on women in physics.

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Education and career

Howes has a doctorate in physics from Columbia University. [2] She joined the faculty at Ball State University in 1976, and became George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy there; she retired as professor emerita from Ball State in 2003, to become chair of physics at Marquette University. [3]

She has also served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow, as program director for undergraduate physics programs at the National Science Foundation, [3] as president of the American Association of Physics Teachers for 2000–2001, [4] and as chair of the American Physical Society Forum on Education. [5]

Books

With Caroline Herzenberg, Howes is the coauthor of Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (Temple University Press, 1999) [6] and of After the War: Women in Physics in the United States (Morgan Claypool Press, 2015)

With Anthony Fainberg, she edited The Energy Sourcebook (American Institute of Physics, 1991). [7] With Michael R. Stevenson, she edited Women and the Use of Military Force (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993). [8]

Recognition

In 1992, Howes was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Physics and Society, "for her innovations in the verification of ballistic missile characteristics, which assisted in resolving problems negotiating parts of the Start Treaty, and for her analyses of energy policy and ballistic missile defenses". [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2020-11-05
  2. ↑ Ruth Howes, Atomic Heritage Foundation, retrieved 2020-11-05
  3. 1 2 "Ruth H. Howes", Ball State University Alpha and Omega Recognition Ceremony program, pp. 10–11
  4. ↑ AAPT Presidents, American Association of Physics Teachers, retrieved 2020-11-05
  5. ↑ "Council Approves Mass Media Fellowship Program", APS News, American Physical Society, vol. 5, no. 2, February 1996
  6. ↑ Reviews of Their Day in the Sun:
  7. ↑ Review of The Energy Sourcebook:
    • Chapman, J. (March 1992), Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 24 (3): 449–450, doi:10.1068/a240447 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ↑ Reviews of Women and the Use of Military Force:
    • Northrup, Terrell A. (October 1994), "One of the boys? Women, military force, and foreign policy decision making", Mershon International Studies Review, 38 (2): 274–279, doi:10.2307/222723, JSTOR   222723
    • Van Tol, Jan (Fall 1996), Naval War College Review, 49 (4): 144–146, JSTOR   44638729 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ↑ APS Fellows Archive: 1992, Forum on Physics and Society , retrieved 2020-11-05
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