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Grace Spruch

Title: Professor Email: spruch@andromeda.rutgers.edu Phone: 973-353-5428/5250 Fax: 973-353-1434 Office: 369 Smith Hall Research: Experimental condensed matter physics, bringing science to general public and non-science students.

Grace Spruch received a Ph. D. degree in 1955 from New York University. Trained in experimental condensed matter physics with a subspecialty in luminescence. She now specializes in bringing science to the general public through books and magazine articles and by teaching courses for non-science students. Dr. Spruch was an American Association of University Women Fellow at Oxford University, and and Honorary Associate of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Recent Publications:

Peter Kapitsa. Grace Marmor Spruch. In Biographical Encyclopedia of
Science, Salem Press, Pasadena, California, 1997.

Tsung-Dao Lee. Grace Marmor Spruch. In Biographical Encyclopedia of
Science, Salem Press, Pasadena, California, 1997.

Did Moby Dick Break Boyle's Law? Grace Marmor Spruch. The American Scholar, Fall, 1998.

"Pop Psychohistory of Science: Newton and Leonardo, Some Common Denominators". Grace Marmor Spruch, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, January, 1996.