Meanwhile, she became an assistant editor for the American Institute of Physics in 1969.[2] After completing her doctorate, she continued at the American Institute of Physics as consulting editor from 1971 to 1987, associate editor from 1987 to 1988, and senior associate editor from 1989 to 1992, before becoming senior editor in 1992.[2] During this period, she was a regular columnist for the Institute's magazine Physics Today, and edited the magazine's news section. She stepped down as senior editor in 2003, continuing as a contributing editor.[1]
Books
Levi is the editor of books including:
The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles (with Mark Sakitt and Art Hobson, American Institute of Physics, 1989)[5]
Global Warming: Physics and Facts (with David W. Hafemeister and Richard Scribner, American Institute of Physics, 1992)[6]
Recognition
Levi was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1991, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Physics and Society, "for her objective analyses and expositions of the physics behind many nuclear weapons issues, and for her lucid explanations of current research for the readers of Physics Today".[7] She was also elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992.[8]
References
^ abcde"Barbara Levi", Writers in residence, UC Santa Barbara Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
^ abcd"Levi, Barbara Goss", Writers Directory, 2005, retrieved 2021-12-27 – via Encyclopedia.com
^ abcdLevi, Barbara G.; Sakitt, Mark; Hobson, Art, eds. (1989), "About the study group", The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, American Institute of Physics, p. x