David C. Cassidy

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David Charles Cassidy (* 1945 ) is an American historian of science , best known for his biography of Werner Heisenberg .

Cassidy studied physics at Rutgers University and received his doctorate in the history of science from Purdue University in 1976 ( Werner Heisenberg and the crisis in quantum theory 1920–1925 ). He then worked at the University of California, Berkeley and as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Stuttgart with Armin Hermann . He was a lecturer at the University of Regensburg . Since 1990 he has been a professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead . In 1992 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Cassidy was co-editor of the collected works of Albert Einstein at Princeton University Press for seven years and was advisor on the editions of Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli , Niels Bohr .

He received the Pfizer Prize for his Heisenberg biography . He also received the Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics . In addition to his Heisenberg biography, he also wrote the article about Heisenberg in the new Dictionary of Scientific Biography . Cassidy was chairman of the History and Philosophy of Science Section of the New York Academy of Sciences . For 2014 he was awarded the Abraham Pais Prize .

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  • Werner Heisenberg - life and work . Spektrum Verlag 1995 (English original: Uncertainty - The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg , WH Freeman 1992)
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century . New York, Pi Press 2005, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009
  • Beyond uncertainty: Heisenberg, quantum physics and the bomb . New York 2008
  • Einstein and our world . Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Humanities Press 1995
  • David C. Cassidy, Gerald Holton , F. James Rutherford: Understanding Physics (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics). Springer 2002
  • Introduction to Jeremy Bernstein : Hitler's Uranium Club - the secret recordings of Farm Hall . AIP 2001
  • A short history of physics in the american century , Harvard University Press 2011
  • Farm Hall and the German atomic bomb project of world war II. A dramatic history , Springer 2017
  • with Allen Esterson: Einstein's wife: the real story of Mileva Einstein-Maric , MIT Press 2019 (with contribution by Ruth Sime )

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SURNAME Cassidy, David C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassidy, David Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1945