Beverley Taylor

Beverley Ann P. Taylor is an American physicist and physics educator known for her physics books for children. She is a professor emerita at Miami University Hamilton in Hamilton, Ohio.[1]

Education and career

Taylor graduated summa cum laude in 1973 from East Tennessee State University, and completed a Ph.D. in physics in 1978 at Clemson University. Her dissertation concerned quantum field theory. After working as a visiting assistant professor at Denison University, she became an assistant professor at Jackson State University in 1979, also working as a visiting scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She moved to Miami University Hamilton in 1984,[2] and retired as a professor emerita in 2018.[3]

Books

Taylor's books include:[2]

• Santa's Scientific Christmas: A School Play with Music for Grades K-6 (play by Ann Veith, illustrated by Susan Gertz, with activities by Mickey Sarquis, Dwight Portman, and Beverley Taylor, Terrific Science Press, 1993)
• Teaching Physics with Toys: Activities for Grades K-9 (with James Poth and Dwight J. Portman, Terrific Science Press, 1995)[4]
• Let's Build Airplanes & Rockets! (with Ben P. Millspaugh, Learning Triangle Press, 1996)
• Exploring Energy with Toys: Complete Lessons for Grades 4-8 (Terrific Science Press, 1998)

Recognition

Taylor was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1999, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Education, "for designing educational materials used effectively by K-12 science teachers, and particularly for developing and publicizing the physics of toys".[5] In 1997 the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) gave her their Homer L. Dodge Distinguished Service Citation,[2] and in 2014 she was named to the inaugural class of AAPT Fellows.[6][7]

References

1. "Faculty and emeriti", Department of Physics, Miami University, retrieved 2022-04-06
2. Johnston, Karen (May 1997), "Distinguished service citations", The Physics Teacher, 35 (5): 264–266, doi:10.1119/1.2344679
3. "Resolution R2018-34" (PDF), Minutes of the Board of Trustees Meeting, Oxford Campus, Marcum Conference Center, Rooms 180-186, Friday, May 18, 2018, Miami University, p. 78, May 18, 2018, retrieved 2022-04-06
4. Farmer, Eloise (January 2007), "Review of Teaching Physics With Toys", Science Scope, 30 (5): 84, JSTOR 43181053
5. "Fellows nominated in 1999 by the Forum on Education", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2022-04-06
6. "Department History", Department of Physics, Miami University, retrieved 2022-04-06
7. AAPT Fellows: Inaugural Cohort (PDF), American Association of Physics Teachers, July 28, 2014, retrieved 2022-04-06