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Stanley Ruby

Golden boy from the "greatest generation" inhabited his Jewish-American identity and values. He never stopped asking "Why?"

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Grad-student life in a packet of letters

Green Valley Drive—our exurban childhood

Mössbauer man—Stan makes his mark in physics

On Hill Avenue

Stan finds love outside of a 20-block radius

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The family secret behind grandfather's desk calendar

The problem with anti-ballistic missiles

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The physics experiment that went wrong

Memories of young Stan

Action at a distance

Chicago Tribune spotlights Stan Ruby in coverage of anti-ABM press conference
  • 2023-11-13
Stan evaluated the feasibility of gamma-ray lasers for the Air Force in 1964
  • 2022-02-08
Stan listed Wu as a reference in his Argonne employment application form
  • 2022-02-06
From Stan's CV files: "This degree was not received"
  • 2022-02-05
Stan's training at Clemson is recorded in Army ASTP records
  • 2022-01-28
Yup, Stan had a doppelganger
  • 2022-01-20
Stan’s employment at Brookhaven is recorded in the lab’s annual and quarterly reports
  • 2022-01-17
Action At a Distance: Stan's later work and speculations will be collected in a new family story
  • 2022-01-11
Stan played a community organizing role in the Mössbauer world
  • 2021-12-18
"Scientific legacy of Stanley Ruby"—a longer version of Gopal's tribute
  • 2021-12-18

Person Data

Branch
Ruby
Generation
1G
Gender
Male

Relationships

Father
Walter Ruby
Mother
Selma Ratner
Wife
Helga Ringel
Son
Walter Ruby (the younger)
Son
Dan Ruby
Daughter
Joanne Ruby

Milestones

Birth
July 19, 1924

New York, NY
United States

Marriage
June 8, 1947

New York, NY
United States

Death
October 18, 2004

Los Gatos, CA
United States

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