Beverley Taylor

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] In the midst of her teaching career, she also took up a spontaneous career of being an amateur radio operator for more than 40 years, and took part in the training of new amateur radio operators during this time.^[4]

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)^[5]
• 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)

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".^[6] 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.^[7][8]