Al Bartlett

Albert Allen Bartlett, Badge Photograph, 1944, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Albert Allen Bartlett (born March 21, 1923 in Shanghai , † September 7, 2013 in Boulder , Colorado ) was an American physicist and professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder , who dealt in particular with questions about global population growth.

Career

The son of the principal of the private Shanghai American School came to the United States at the age of three months and grew up in Ohio . He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Colgate University in 1944 . After receiving his master's degree from Harvard University in 1948, he received his doctorate there in 1951. In 1978 he was president of the American Association of Physics Teachers . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Bartlett lectured on arithmetic , population, and energy about 1,700 times from September 1969 . He saw continued population growth as the greatest challenge facing humanity. The term sustainable growth ( sustainable growth ) he thought was a oxymoron . He coined the quote: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Publications

The Essential Exponential For the Future of Our Planet , Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2006, ISBN 0-9758973-0-6

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Anne Becher, Joseph Richey: American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. 2nd Edition. Gray House, Millerton 2008, ISBN 978-1-592-37119-8 , Vol. 1, p. 55.
↑ ^a ^b www.huffingtonpost.com Dr. Al Bartlett Dead: Physics Professor Who Gave Famous Lecture On Overpopulation Over 1,700 Times Dies At 90. In: Huffington Post, September 9, 2013 (accessed September 11, 2013).
↑ albartlett.org (English) Retrieved April 7, 2012

personal data
SURNAME	Bartlett, Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bartlett, Albert Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shanghai
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 2013
Place of death	Boulder

[ael-1] A ^b Anne Becher, Joseph Richey: American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. 2nd Edition. Gray House, Millerton 2008, ISBN 978-1-592-37119-8 , Vol. 1, p. 55.

[dead-2] www.huffingtonpost.com Dr. Al Bartlett Dead: Physics Professor Who Gave Famous Lecture On Overpopulation Over 1,700 Times Dies At 90. In: Huffington Post, September 9, 2013 (accessed September 11, 2013).

[3] rtlett.org (English) Retrieved April 7, 2012