John S. Rigden
John
S. Rigden is currently an Honory Professor of Physics at
Washington
University in St. Louis. He received his B. S. from
Eastern Nazarene
College and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Upon
completion
of his graduate work he was a post-doctoral fellow at
Harvard University.
He has served on the faculties of Eastern Nazarene
College, Middlebury
College, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In 1987
he joined
the American Institute of Physics where he served as
Director of
Physics Programs. Rigden’s scholarly work has been in the
areas
of molecular physics and the history of science.
Rigden’s professional activities have been at
the national
and international levels. He was editor of the
American Journal
of Physics from 1975 to 1985. In 1992 he was the
Director of
Development of the National Science Standards Project at
the National
Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he was elected chairman of
the History
of Physics Forum of the American Physical Society. He has
served
on numerous committees of the American Association of
Physics Teachers,
the American Physical Society, the American Association
for the Advancement
of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences. He
served as an
NSF consultant to India in 1968 and 1969. He was the
United States
Representative to the International Science Exhibition in
Rangoon
Burma in 1970, a Fulbright Fellow to Burma in 1971 and to
Uruguay
in 1975.
Rigden is the author of Physics and the
Sound of Music (John
Wiley), Rabi: Scientist and Citizen (Basic
Books), and Hydrogen:
The Essential Element (Harvard). He has edited
Most of the
Good Stuff, Memories of Richard Feynman as well as
several collections
including the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics
and the Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Elementary Particle Physics where he
served
as Editor-in-Chief. Currently he is co-editor (with Roger
Stuewer) of the scholarly
journal, Physics in Perspective, published by
Birkhäuser
Publishing in Basel, Switzerland.
Rigden is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science and the American Physical Society. He holds an
honorary
Doctor of Science degree from Denison University.
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