Katherine Sopka

Katherine Sopka (an haifi Katherine J. Russell) ta kasance mai tambayoyin kimiyya, farfesa a fannin kimiyyar lissafi kuma masanin tarihin kimiyyar lissafi. An san ta da tambayoyin da aka yi da manyan masana kimiyya, da kuma yin aiki kan tarihin kimiyar lissafi da al'ummar kimiyyar lissafi a Amurka a cikin 1920s da 1930s.

Rayuwa

An haifi Katherine na huɗu cikin yara shida a Dorchester, Boston, kuma ta halarci Makarantar Latin na Girl a Boston. Ta yi karatu a Radcliffe College, inda ta sami digiri na farko a fannin kimiyyar lissafi.

Ta auri John J. Sopka a shekara ta 1943, kuma daga baya ma’auratan suka ƙaura zuwa Dayton, Ohio, inda mijinta ya yi aiki da aikin Manhattan har zuwa ƙarshen yaƙin. Dukkansu biyun sun yi niyyar kammala karatun digirin su ne suka koma Harvard, inda Katherine ta samu digiri na biyu a fannin kimiyyar lissafi da kuma John Ph.D. a fannin lissafi.

Sopka ya koyar da ilimin lissafi a Kwalejin Malamai ta Jihar Newark sannan daga baya a Jami'ar Colorado a Boulder (CU). A can ta yi aiki tare da Frank Oppenheimer da David Hawkins kan haɓaka manhaja don koyar da ilimin kimiyyar lissafi dangane da aikin Kwamitin Nazarin Kimiyyar Jiki.

A karkashin kulawar Gerald Holton a cikin Tarihin Kimiyya na Jami'ar Harvard, ta yi nazarin al'ummar kimiyyar lissafi a Amurka da kuma dogaro da al'ummar kimiyyar lissafi ta Turai na 1920s. Ta samu Ph.D. a cikin tarihin kimiyya da ilimi a Jami'ar Harvard a 1976 tare da karatunta mai suna Quantum Physics a Amurka: 1920-1935.

Ta yi aiki sosai a kan haɓaka manhajar kimiyyar lissafi, tana shiga cikin Physics Project Physics. Ta yi hira da ƙwararrun masana kimiyya kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin edita na jerin littattafan Cibiyar Nazarin Physics ta Amurka.

Ta mutu a ranar 30 ga Yuli, 2009 a Salem, Massachusetts.

Rubutun Tarihin Baka

Sopka ta rubuta tambayoyinta, wanda ya zama wani ɓangare na tarihin baka na kimiyyar lissafi. An adana su tare da Niels Bohr Library & Archives na Cibiyar Tarihin Physics, Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya ta Amirka, Kwalejin Kwalejin, MD Amurka.

A 1979 ta yi magana da Mildred Allen. Alice Armstrong, [8] Dorothy Heyworth,

A cikin 1978, ta yi hira da Lucy Wilson [10] [11] da Dorothy Weeks

A cikin 1977 batutuwanta sun haɗa da Melba Phillips, [13] Janet Guernsey, Edward Purcell, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, John H. Van Vleck, Sidney Coleman, da Gerald Holton.

A cikin 1976 ta yi magana da Sheldon Glashow, Norman Ramsey, Jabez Curry Street, da Edwin Kemble.

Labarai

Littattafai

Katherine Russell Sopka: Kimiyyar lissafi a Amurka: shekarun zuwa 1935, Thomash Publishers, 1988, ISBN 978-0-88318-553-7

Katherine Russell Sopka (ed.): Physics don sabon ƙarni: takardun da aka gabatar a 1904 St. Louis congress, Tomash Publishers, 1986, ISBN 978-0-88318-487-5

Katherine Russell Sopka: Ba da gudummawa: taƙaitaccen tarihin rawar mata a fannin kimiyyar lissafi, Ƙungiyar Malaman Physics ta Amurka, 1984, ISBN 978-0-917853-09-8

Dorothy Weeks, Katherine Russell Sopka: Dorothy Weeks: kwafin hirar da aka yi a kan na'urar rikodi a kan 19 Yuli 1978, Cibiyar Tarihin Physics, Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya ta Amirka, 1978

Katherine Sopka: Ƙididdigar Physics a Amurka: 1920-1935 (Dissertation, Jami'ar Harvard, 1976). New York: Cibiyar Nazarin Physics ta Amirka da Tomash Publishers (Bita na Littafin David C. Cassidy, Jaridar Birtaniya don Tarihin Kimiyya, 1982, 15, shafi. 202-204)

Katherine Sopka: Binciken Kimiyyar Jiki: PHYS4005, Div. Nazari mai zaman kansa, Cibiyar Fasaha ta New York, 1973

Labarai da surori na littattafai (zaɓi)

Katherine R. Sopka, Elisabeth M. Sopka, Cibiyar Nazarin tauhidin Bonebreak: Babban-Secret Manhattan Project Site, Physics in the Perspective (PIP), Springer, Volume 12, Lamba 3, shafi 338-349, DOI: 10.1007/s00016-100016-10010

Eli Maor, Katherine R. Sopka: Labarin e: e labarin lamba, Malamin Physics, Juzu'i na 33, Fitowa ta 8, shafi 540, DOI 10.1119/1.2344290, 1995

Katherine R. Sopka: Mutum na zamaninmu, Malamin Physics, Juzu'i na 24, Fitowa ta 3, shafi na 188, DOI 10.1119/1.2341980, 1986

Katherine R. Sopka: Labari mai kyau, Malamin Physics, Juzu'i na 23, Fitowa ta 4, shafi 252-253, DOI: 10.1119/1.2341805, 1985

Katherine R. Sopka: Shekaru uku na Joseph Henry, Malamin Physics, Juzu'i na 25, Fitowa ta 4, shafi 254, 10.1119/1.2342239, 1987

Katherine R. Sopka: Barbashi ko taguwar ruwa?, Malamin Physics, juzu'i na 22, fitowa ta 5, shafi 336, DOI 10.1119/1.2341564, 1984

Gerald Holton, Katherine Sopka: Manyan littattafan kimiyya a karni na ashirin: kimiyyar lissafi. A cikin: Mortimer J. Adler, John Van Doren (eds.): Babban Ra'ayoyin Yau, shafi 224 ff., 1979

Katherine Sopka: Manzon kimiyya ya ziyarci Amurka: Tafiyar John Tyndall na 1872–1873, Malamin Physics, juzu'i na 10, fitowa ta 7, shafi. 369–375, 1972 (abstract)

Katherine J. Sopka: Haqiqa isasshiyar cleavage, Physics A Yau, Juzu'i na 21, Fitowa ta 7, Wasiƙu, shafi na 21. 9, DOI 10.1063/1.3035089, 1968

Tarihin Rayuwa

Katherine R. Sopka: Tarihin rayuwar Percy Williams Bridgman, Hanneby.com

Katherine R. Sopka: Biography[matattu na dindindin] na Annie Jump Cannon, Hanneby.com