F. David Peat
Francis David Peat (born April 18, 1938 in Waterloo, Liverpool , † June 6, 2017 ) was a British physicist and non-fiction author.
Peat studied physics at the University of Liverpool with a bachelor's degree in 1960, a master's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in 1964. As a scientist, he initially dealt primarily with theoretical solid-state physics and molecular physics. From 1965 he was an assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and from 1967 to 1975 researcher for the National Research Council of Canada. During this time he was also at Birkbeck College, University of London with David Bohm and Roger Penrose in 1971/72 . From 1975 he lived as a writer and from 1996 in Pari in Tuscany , 25 km southeast of Siena . There he founded the Pari Center for New Learning .
He wrote books on chaos theory, quantum theory and the ideas of David Bohm , with whom he also worked scientifically and whose biography he wrote, on the theory of synchronicity by Carl Gustav Jung and the culture of North American Indians and other topics.
From 1990 to 1992 he was Chairman of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Canadian Institute of Physics.
Fonts
- with David Bohm: Science, order and creativity , Bantam 1987, Routledge 2000
- Infinite potential. The life and times of David Bohm , Addison-Wesley 1997
- Editor with Paul Buckley: Glimpsing Reality: ideas of physics and the link to biology , University of Toronto Press 1996
- with John Briggs: Seven life lessons of chaos. Timeless wisdom from the science of change , Harper Collins 1999
- The blackwinged night. Creativity in nature and mind , Perseus Publ. 2000
- In search of Nikola Tesla , Ashgrove Press 2003
- Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe , Phanes Press 1996
- Lighting the seventh fire: the spiritual ways, healing, and science of the Native American , Carol Publ. 1994
- The philosophers stone: chaos, synchronicity and the hidden order of the world , Bantam Books 1991
- Einstein's moon: Bell's theorem and the curious quest for quantum reality , Contemporary Books 1990
- Superstrings and the search for the theory of everything , Contemporary Books 1988
- Artificial intelligence - how machines think , Baen Enterprises / Simon and Schuster 1985
- with John Briggs: Turbulent mirror - an illustrated guide to chaos theory and the science of wholeness , Harper and Row 1989
- Cold fusion. The making of a scientific discovery , Contemporary Books 1989
- with Basil Hiley : Quantum implications - essays in honor of David Bohm , Routledge 1987
- with John Briggs: The looking glass universe. The emerging science of wholeness , Cornerstone Library 1984
- Synchronicity. The bridge between matter and mind , Bantam Books 1987
- The nuclear book , Ottawa: Deneau and Greenberg 1979 (Safety of Nuclear Energy)
- From certainty to uncertainty: the story of science and ideas in the twentieth century , Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press 2002
- with Paul Buckley: A question of physics. Conversations in physics and biology , University of Toronto Press 1979 (interviews with physicists and biologists)
- The armchair guide to murder and detection , Deneau Publ. 1984
Web links
- Literature by and about F. David Peat in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Homepage
- Short biography at The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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| SURNAME | Peat, F. David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peat, Francis David (full name); Peat, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waterloo, Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 2017 |