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John
Rigden (Washington
University in Saint Louis)
John S. Rigden is currently Honorary 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
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 was editor of the American Journal of Physics
from 1978 to 1988. 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.
Rigden is the author of Physics and the Sound of Music (John Wiley), Rabi:
Scientist and Citizen (Basic Books), Hydrogen: The Essential Element
(Harvard), and Einstein 1905: the Standard of Greatness. He co-edited Most
of the Good Stuff, Memories of Richard Feynman and served as
Editor-in-Chief for the four-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics and
Building Blocks of Matter: A Supplement to the Macmillan Encyclopedia of
Physics.
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. Rigden is the
2005 winner of the Millikan Award given by AAPT. He holds an honorary
Doctor of Science degree from Denison University.
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