Rubby Sherr is presented with a framed copy of an important paper he published in 1945 while Nobel Laureate, Professor Phil Anderson watches on May 1, 2013. (Photo by Julianne Jones)
The Princeton University physics department celebrated the 100th birthday of Professor Emeritus Rubby Sherr on May 1.
Sherr’s students, collaborators and two daughters attended the event where he was presented with a framed copy of one of his papers.
Sherr received his undergraduate degree from New York University in 1934 and his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1938.
He joined the Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Lab in 1938 and worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos for two years in the Initiator Group, which designed the trigger used with the plutonium device at Trinity.
After Los Alamos, Sherr joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Princeton University, where he taught and researched in nuclear physics for more than 35 years, and retired in 1982.
After retirement, he continued his research in collaboration with Professor H. T. Fortune of the University of Pennsylvania.
Sherr’s research spans nine decades; his first paper appeared in 1936. In the first half of 2013, he has already published five papers.
