Melba Phillips

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Melba Phillips

Melba Phillips is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis, Oakland City University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Andrews University, Brooklyn College, Stony Brook University, University of Minnesota

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According to Wikipedia, Melba Newell Phillips was an American physicist and pioneer science educator. One of the first doctoral students of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, Phillips completed her Ph.D. in 1933, a time when few women pursued careers in science. In 1935 Oppenheimer and Phillips published their description of the Oppenheimer–Phillips process, an early contribution to nuclear physics that explained the behavior of accelerated nuclei of radioactive hydrogen atoms. Phillips was also known for refusing to cooperate with a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee's investigation on internal security during the McCarthy era that led to her dismissal from her professorship at Brooklyn College, where she was a professor of science from 1938 until 1952.

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Melba Phillips's Published Works

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