Walter's first draft of family history

Discovery Notebook
Life in Nice—our personal Sitzkrieg
  • Aug 12, 2021

In Nice, we rented an apartment in a three story walk-up building on the west side of the city.…

Antwerp reunion and onward to France
  • Aug 12, 2021

From Liege, we headed to Antwerp, a raucous port town near Holland with a large Jewish…

Across the Siegfried Line
  • Aug 12, 2021

When we were ready to go, an official SS car came to pick us up at the door. Some SS officials…

Sisters had differing results in love
  • Aug 11, 2021

Actually, around that time, Ogi acquired a suitor. His name was Herr Repper, and he was a…

Helga found a mentor at Julia Richman High School
  • Aug 11, 2021

At the end of that first summer, I was set to go back to school, where I hadn’t been in three…

Helga embraced American culture
  • Aug 11, 2021

I really became an all-American girl and embraced American culture in a big way. I loved the…

Helga met Stan in Long Beach before he shipped out
  • Aug 11, 2021

I was one of hundreds of kids who used to hang out on the beach in front of the Nassau Hotel,…

Seaside escape from the sweltering city
  • Aug 11, 2021

When we got to New York, we found a place to live in a rather shabby apartment building at 101st…

Departing Berlin as if for a weekend trip
  • Aug 07, 2021

I must say that my mother performed magnificently in that crisis. As already pointed out, she…

Marienbad "holiday"
  • Aug 01, 2021

My father died suddenly in June of 1938 after developing blood poisoning (sepsis) during a…

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By Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby
Walter's book about personal peacemaking
  • Apr 19, 2021

We Refuse to Be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship At a Time, by…
The sudden death of Walter Ruby
  • Dec 26, 2020

On July 22, 1939, Stan was in the bathroom shaving—having just received his first razor and…

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Schematic drawings of Walter Ruby-patented corkscrew
Walter suffers a career setback
  • Dec 26, 2020

Suddenly, in 1937, things turned dramatically downhill for Walter Ruby. According to Stanley,…

Rose Ratner was a dynamo
  • Dec 26, 2020

According to all accounts, Rose was a dynamo who did everything around the house. She was an…

When Rose first met Abraham Bloch
  • Dec 26, 2020

For reasons that remain unclear, at the age of 15 or 16, Rose was set up with a boy from a…

Download "The Ruby Family Histories" (2006)
  • Dec 22, 2020

Our founding document is the 50-page memoir "The Ruby Family Histories: The Early Lives of…

More memories of Grammy
  • Dec 21, 2020

Marsha remembers: "When I was a kid, Grammy always took me to all kinds of wonderful places.…

Selma, the devoted grandmother
  • Dec 21, 2020

For her part, Selma Ruby responded to the tragedy of her husband’s death by continuing to give…

"The Gonif" as an archetype for Walter Ruby
  • Dec 21, 2020

It should be acknowledged that we have, at this point, no proof that the Gonif actually existed…

The Gonif — wayward son in the Crimean war
  • Dec 21, 2020

They say the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, but this crab apple landed in a whole…

Plan to datamine our founding document
  • Dec 21, 2020

Way back in 2006, about the time this blog was also getting started, Walter authored a wonderful…

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From the HIAS file
Role of HIAS in the Ringel connection
  • Apr 13, 2012

Walter called to remind me that we have already written about the role played by the immigration…

RFH document available for download
  • Jan 06, 2007

The draft Ruby Family History document is now…

Citations

Authors
Stanley L. Ruby(21) Chien-Shiung Wu(18) Emil Jan Konopinski(9) Brice M. Rustad(8) James S. Allen(7) Allan Franklin(7) Otto Kofoed-Hansen(4) P. A. Flinn(4) Leon Lidofsky(4) Richard L. Garwin(4)
Subjects
beta decay theory(21) angular correlation(21) Rustad-Ruby experiment(17) mössbauer effect(17) beta spectrum experiment(14) Mössbauer spectroscopy(12) parity nonconservation(12) V–A theory(8) synchrotron radiation(8) conference/meeting(7)
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