Undergraduate Physics. In 1997 Brooklyn College established a scholarship her honor. In 2003 the American Physical Society awarded its Joseph Burton Forum Award to Phillips for her contributions to science education, her role in founding the Federation of American Scientists, and as service as a role model "of a principled scientist." Selected published works Principles of Physical Science, co-authored with Francis Bonner (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1957) Classical Electricity and Magnetism, co-authored with Wolfgang Panofsky (1957) Principles of Electrodynamics and Relativity, co-authored with P. G. Bergmann (1962) On Teaching Physics: Reprints of American Journal of Physics Articles from the First Half Century of AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers, 1979) Physics History from AAPT Journals (American Association of Physics Teachers, 1985) History of Physics (Readings from Physics Today, No 2) (American Institute of Physics, 1985) History of Physics II: The Life and Times of Modern Physics (Readings from Physics Today, No 5). (American Institute of Physics, 1992) Notes References "Scope of Material" in Further reading External links "Oral History Interviews: Melba Phillips", 5 December 1977, transcript, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives American nuclear physicists Physics educators 1907 births 2004 deaths American women physicists Washington University in St. Louis faculty Washington University physicists Oakland City University alumni People from Gibson County, Indiana People from Petersburg, Indiana 20th-century American physicists 20th-century American women scientists Women nuclear physicists Andrews University alumni Brooklyn College faculty Deaths from coronary artery disease Fellows of the American Physical Society