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Katherine Sopka (born Katherine J. Russell) was a science interviewer, physics professor and historian of physics. She is known for her interviews held with leading scientists,〔(Katherine Sopka plumbed physics history ), www.boston.com〕 and for work on the history of quantum physics and the physics community in the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s. == Life == Katherine was born fourth of six children in Dorchester, Boston, and attended Girl's Latin School in Boston. She studied at Radcliffe College, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in physics. She married John J. Sopka in 1943, and the couple subsequently moved to Dayton, Ohio, where her husband worked with the Manhattan project until the end of the war. They both intended to complete their graduate degrees and returned to Harvard, where Katherine earned her masters degree in physics and John his Ph.D. in mathematics.〔(Katherine J. Sopka, 88 ), obituary, eagletribune.com, August 3, 2009 (downloaded 22 March 2012)〕 Sopka taught physics at Newark State Teachers College and later at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). There she worked with Frank Oppenheimer and David Hawkins on developing a curriculum for physics instruction in relation to a project of the Physical Science Study Committee.〔 Under the supervision of Gerald Holton in the History of Science Department of Harvard University, she studied the theoretical physics community in the U.S. and its dependence on the European physics community of the 1920s. She obtained her Ph.D. in history of science and education at Harvard University in 1976 with her dissertation entitled ''Quantum Physics in America: 1920–1935''.〔Gerald Holton: ''The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens'', Harvard Univ Press, 30. Oktober 1998, ISBN 978-0-674-00530-3, (p. 128 )〕〔Albert E. Moyer: ''American Physics in Transition: A History of Conceptual Change in the Late Nineteenth Century: 3'', ISBN 978-0-938228-06-6, (p. xx )〕 She actively worked on physics curriculum development, participating in the Harvard Project Physics.〔Gerald Holton: (''The Project Physics Course, Then and Now'' ), The Origin of Project Physics, Science Education encore (downloaded 25 March 2012)〕 She interviewed noted scientists and worked as editor for the American Institute of Physics books series ''History of Modern Physics''.〔(Katherine J. Sopka, 88 ), eagletribune.com (downloaded 22 March 2012)〕 She died on 30 July 2009 in Salem, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katherine Sopka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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