Family Story Finder
The sweep of family history across the generations
Action at a distance
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
Demise of the cultured Lewi family
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Grammy — everyone’s favorite grandmother
She made each of her six grandchildren feel special
Helga at the Theodor Herzl School
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
Love conquers all as Gerhard marries Ilse
Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences
Mössbauer man—Stan makes his mark in physics
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
Sputnik in the backyard
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
The physics experiment that went wrong
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
The problem with anti-ballistic missiles
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
The Rubys in Israel—1961 sabbatical
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection