Marian H. Rose

For the Polish motor sports competitor, see Marian Rose.
Marian H. Rose
Born
Marian Heineman

(1920-10-11)October 11, 1920
Brussels, Belgium
DiedAugust 20, 2025(2025-08-20) (aged 104)
Bedford, New York, U.S.
OccupationsPhysicist, environmental activist
FatherDannie Heineman
RelativesMarion Wadsworth Cannon (cousin)

Marian Henrietta Heineman Rose (October 11, 1920 – August 20, 2025) was an American physicist and environmental activist. She was a research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University from 1953 to 1973, and active in protecting the Croton Watershed in New York.

Early life and education

Rose was born in Brussels, the daughter of American father and a German mother,[1] Dannie Heineman and Hettie Meyer Heineman.[2] Her father, an electrical engineer who was born in North Carolina[3] and raised in Germany,[4] headed SOFINA, a power company in Belgium.[5] His cousin Marion Wadsworth Cannon was a poet and civil rights activist based in North Carolina.[4]

She moved to the United States with her family in 1940, fleeing the Nazi occupations in Belgium and France.[1][6] She graduated from Barnard College in 1942, and earned a master's degree in physics from Columbia University in 1944. She was the only woman doctoral student in physics at Harvard University when she completed her Ph.D. there in 1947.[7] Her dissertation was titled "Kinetic Theory of Resistance iin Rarefied Gases."[8]

Career

During World War II, Rose did research related to the Manhattan Project at Columbia.[9] She was the first female teaching fellow in physics when she taught at Harvard University from 1946 to 1947. She was a research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University from 1953 to 1973, and a visiting fellow at Yale University from 1981 to 1992. Her research involved magnetic confinement fusion.[7] which she hoped would be a source of abundant power and "a means of preventing war".[5] She retired in 1992.[2]

She received Barnard University's Distinguished Alumna Award in 2007.[2]

Activism

Rose focused on environmental activism in her retirement. She was co-founder and president of the Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition beginning in 1997,[9][10][11] and founder of the Rose Family Foundation. She was an active member of the Bedford Conservation Board, the Bedford Wetlands Control Commission, the Heineman Foundation, and the Sierra Club.[2][12] The town of Bedford marked her hundredth birthday with a "Marian Rose Day", but she responded to the fuss by saying "I don't know why 100 is considered special."[7]

As a young woman in Europe, Rose protested against Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. At age 104, she was a regular at No Kings protests against the Trump administration; she attended her last protest in Mount Kisco on August 16, 2025. "I've protested against fascism all my life," she said that day.[1]

Publications

  • "On the Structure of a Steady Hydromagnetic Shock: One-Fluid Theory" (1956)[13]
  • "On the Diffusion of a Conduction Fluid Across a Magnetic Field" (1956)[14]
  • "On Plasma-Magnetic Shocks" (1960)[15]
  • "Drag on an Object in Nearly-Free Molecular Flow" (1964)[16]
  • "The Transitional Drag on a Cylinder at Hypersonic Mach Numbers" (1965)[17]
  • "A computation of the reflection and transmission coefficients for dielectric coated waveguides" (1986)[18]
  • "My view: Environment under GOP stealth attack" (1995)[19]
  • "Our view: Watershed agreement is not enough" (1997, with George Klein)[20]
  • "Our view: Filtration plant will have adverse impact" (1998, with Gudrun LeLash)[21]
  • "Preventing pollution is the key" (1998)[22]

Personal life and legacy

Rose married British attorney and World War II veteran Simon Rose in 1948. They had four children.[1] Her husband died in 1981,[23] after suffering a stroke she died on August 20, 2025, at the age of 104, in Bedford. State Assemblyman Chris Burdick said in tribute that "she was driven by the highest values and integrity I've ever seen."[7]

The Society of Physics Students, part of the American Institute of Physics, established the Marian H. Rose Research Scholarship in 2025, in her honor.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wilbur, Martin (2025-08-22). "Centenarian Marian Rose was an activist to the end". The Recorder News. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  2. ^ a b c d Kahn, Annette (Summer 2007). "Distinguished Alumna Award: Marian Heineman Rose" (PDF). Barnard Magazine: 12–13.
  3. ^ "Dannie N. Heineman". Physics Today. 15 (3): 84. 1962-03-01. Bibcode:1962PhT....15c..84.. doi:10.1063/1.3058089. ISSN 0031-9228. Archived from the original on 2025-04-17. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  4. ^ a b Romine, Dannye (1977-12-13). "Incident in 1940 May Have Cost UNC Literary Treasure Worth $10 Million". The Charlotte Observer. p. 17. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Harris, Bunny (1958-01-15). "Will Top Red Feat; Physicist Says U.S. To Tame H-Bomb". The Charlotte Observer. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Charlotte-Born Magnate Presents Foundation Prize". The Charlotte Observer. 1953-03-27. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c d Grauel, Thane (2025-09-19). "Marian Rose, 104, Bedford resident, scientist and longtime activist". The Recorder News. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  8. ^ Harvard Physics PhD Theses, 1873-1953.
  9. ^ a b Clary, Greg (2006-12-15). "Octogenarian makes fitting career change". The Journal News. p. 33. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Greene, Donna (January 30, 2000). "Battle Over Regulations for Wetlands". The New York Times. pp. Westchester section 1, 5. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  11. ^ Ganga, Elizabeth (2011-08-07). "DEP funding to buy Croton land dries up". The Journal News. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Clinton Fever: T-Shirts And an Ecology Report". The New York Times. September 21, 1999. p. 38. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  13. ^ Rose, Marian H. On the Structure of a Steady Hydromagnetic Shock, One-fluid Theory. No. NYO-7693. New York Univ., New York. Atomic Energy Commission Computing Facility, 1956.
  14. ^ Rose, Marian H. On the Diffusion of a Conducting Fluid Across a Magnetic Field. No. NYO-7691. New York Univ., New York. Atomic Energy Commission Computing Facility, 1956.
  15. ^ Rose, M. H. (1960-03-14). On Plasma-Magnetic Shocks (Report). New York Univ., New York. Inst. of Mathematical Sciences. OSTI 4130373.
  16. ^ Rose, Marian H. (1964-08-01). "Drag on an Object in Nearly-Free Molecular Flow". The Physics of Fluids. 7 (8): 1262–1269. Bibcode:1964PhFl....7.1262R. doi:10.1063/1.1711371. ISSN 0031-9171.
  17. ^ Rose, Marian H. "The Transitional Drag on a Cylinder at Hypersonic Mach Numbers" in Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Volume 1. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium held at the Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto, 1964. Edited by J.H. de Leeuw. New York: Academic Press, 1965., p.312
  18. ^ Rose, Marian H. (1986-02-01). "A computation of the reflection and transmission coefficients for dielectric coated waveguides". International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves. 7 (2): 197–235. Bibcode:1986IJIMW...7..197R. doi:10.1007/BF01013267. ISSN 1572-9559.
  19. ^ Rose, Marian H. (1995-10-18). "My View: Environment under GOP stealth attack". The Daily Times. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Our View: Watershed agreement is not enough". The Daily Times. 1997-02-14. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ LeLash, Gudrun; Rose, Marion (1998-02-18). "Our view: Filtration plant will have adverse impact". The Daily Times. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ Rose, Marian H. (1998-07-06). "Preventing pollution is the key". The Daily Times. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Simon Rose". The Reporter Dispatch. 1981-01-20. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Inaugural Marian Rose Research Scholarship Awarded to Brianna Hauke". American Institute of Physics. 2025-02-05. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
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