Ruth Hubbard

Overview

Ruth Hubbard born Vienna, Austria March 3, 1924 (d. 2016). Biochemistry professor at Harvard and Woods Hole Institute. Peace activist for over 40 years with husband George Wald, opposing Vietnam War and the arms race.

Quotations

“The Kennedy School is more responsible for the wars that the United States is involved in than the arms manufacturers.” (Harvard Crimson, Apr. 2, 1991)

“The [Vietnam] war made me see that science and the universities help maintain differences in wealth and power between nations and between the ethnic, racial, and economic groups within them.” (Politics of Women's Biology, 1990, p. 1; photo Wikipedia from Harvard Square Library)