Rita Dorothy Guggenheim Lerner (May 7, 1929 – July 16, 1994)[1] was an American physicist, librarian, editor, and science communicator who worked for many years at theAmerican Institute of Physics. WithGeorge L. Trigg, she was co-editor of theEncyclopedia of Physics (Addison-Wesley, 1981).[2]
Rita Guggenheim was born inNew York, New York, in 1929,[1][3] and was a 1945 graduate ofFiorello H. LaGuardia High School.[4] She earned a bachelor's degree fromRadcliffe College in 1949,[3] and was managing editor of the college yearbook.[5] She went toColumbia University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1951 and (as Rita G. Lerner) completing her Ph.D. in 1956;[3] her dissertation wasMicrowave Studies of Molecular Structure.[6]
She came to the American Institute of Physics in the 1960s, hired as part of a program funded by theNational Science Foundation for the improvement of scientific communication.[7]
She died on July 16, 1994, inArdsley, New York.[1]
Lerner was named a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.[8]
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