science & learning

For Stanley Ruby, logical reasoning and the pursuit of knowledge were the highest calling.

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Action at a distance
  • Jan 11, 2022

Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations

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Helga at the Theodor Herzl School
  • Jun 01, 2021

Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime

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Mössbauer man—Stan makes his mark in physics
  • Aug 13, 2017

Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.

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Sputnik in the backyard
  • Aug 13, 2017

Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.

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The Rubys in Israel—1961 sabbatical
  • Aug 13, 2017

Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection

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The physics experiment that went wrong
  • Aug 13, 2017

How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?

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The problem with anti-ballistic missiles
  • Aug 13, 2017

Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.

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