Rita Dorothy Guggenheim Lerner (May 7, 1929 – July 16, 1994)[1] was an American physicist, librarian, editor, and science communicator who worked for many years at the American Institute of Physics.
With George L. Trigg, she was co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Physics (Addison-Wesley, 1981).
[5] She went to Columbia University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1951 and (as Rita G. Lerner) completing her Ph.D. in 1956;[3] her dissertation was Microwave Studies of Molecular Structure.
[6] She came to the American Institute of Physics in the 1960s, hired as part of a program funded by the National Science Foundation for the improvement of scientific communication.
[1] Lerner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.