Melba Phillips, 97; Physicist Helped Teach Science Education
LA Times
Melba Phillips, 97, a physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer and was a pioneer in developing science education, died Nov. 8 in a Petersburg, Ind., nursing home of natural causes. After earning a doctorate at UC Berkeley, Phillips worked with Oppenheimer in the mid-1930s to explain unexpected reactions of various kinds of subatomic particles. Their findings, known as the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect, is considered classic in early nuclear physics. In the 1940s, as Oppenheimer led the development of the atomic bomb, Phillips helped organize the Federation of American Scientists, which later helped assure civilian control of atomic energy.
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