Janet Ramage, who has died aged 91, was a pioneering and enthusiastic teacher of physics and renewable energy. In 1958 she got a scholarship to the US. There she became the UCLA’s first female physics instructor, described in the newspapers as a “25-year-old striking blue-eyed blonde”.
Returning to her native England, she taught at Chelsea College of Science and Technology (now part of King’s College London), where she met her husband, Heinz Post, who set up a department for the history of the philosophy of science. The couple married in 1961, after which Janet moved to the Sir John Cass College (now part of London Metropolitan University) in Aldgate, where she is remembered as a first-class physics lecturer with an ability to engage with and inspire students.
