Arthur Edward Ruark (November 9, 1899 – 1979) was an American physicist and academic known for his role in the development of quantum mechanics.
He wrote the book Atoms, Molecules, and Quanta with Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Harold Clayton Urey in 1930, and is the author of numerous scientific papers on quantum physics.
[3] After World War II, Ruark became the founding director of the graduate physics program of the University of Alabama.
During his time with the commission, Ruark also supervised the research and development process of Project Sherwood.
[4][5] Ruark is the author of Multiple Electron Transmissions and Primed Spectral Terms, 1925; Atoms, Molecules, and Quanta, 1930; Atomic Physics (with others), 1933; and numerous articles on critical potentials, Spectroscopy, wave mechanics, indetermination principle, radio activity and nuclear physics.