Gloria Lubkin was an American science journalist and editor for the magazine Physics Today, of which she was the editor-in-chief from 1985 to 1994.
11 Facts About Gloria Lubkin
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Gloria Lubkin cofounded the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota and was a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Gloria Lubkin married Yale Jay Lubkin, son of computer scientist Samuel Lubkin, in 1953, and they had two children before divorcing in 1968.
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In 1963, Gloria Lubkin cold-called Physics Today, looking for a position as a science journalist.
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Gloria Lubkin was fired when it was discovered she was pregnant.
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Gloria Lubkin was rehired in 1965, six weeks after the birth of her daughter, and stayed at Physics Today for 45 years.
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Gloria Lubkin prepared special issues of the magazine dedicated to Physics in Japan, Richard Feynman, and Andrei Sakharov, as well as for its 50th anniversary.
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Gloria Lubkin's final story for the magazine was an obituary for the nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, one of the few women physicists to have received the National Medal of Science.
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Gloria Lubkin was one of the first American science journalists to travel to the Soviet Union and to the People's Republic of China.
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At the American Physical Society, Gloria Lubkin was very active in the Forum on the History of Physics, serving in a variety of roles.
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Gloria Lubkin became a Nieman Fellow of Harvard University in 1974, and later served on the Nieman advisory committee and the selection committee for MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.