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) Allan Franklin(7) James S. Allen(7) Harry J. Lipkin(4) E. Ambler(4) R. P. Hudson(4) R. E. Marshak(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) synchrotron radiation(8) V–A theory(8) weak-force unification(7)
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