The sweep of family history across the generations
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
The U.S. liquor industry took off after the repeal of Prohibition. Walter Ruby was the marketing manager for the American Spirits company
Walter thought he had proved the family legend of descent from the celebrated Kovno Rav, Rabbi Yitchak Elchanon Spektor. Later facts emerged that suggested a more tenuous connection.