Jeremy Bernstein
Jeremy Bernstein (born December 31, 1929 in Rochester , New York ) is an American theoretical physicist and science essayist .
Bernstein studied at Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 1955 under Julian Schwinger . As a theoretical physicist, he dealt with elementary particle physics and cosmology. He is known as a non-fiction author in the USA, for example on nuclear weapons, their history and related problems, and of the biographies of physicists ( Robert Oppenheimer , Hans Bethe , Albert Einstein and others). He was able to fall back on his personal acquaintance with many famous physicists. He was employed as a journalist for over 30 years until 1993 at The New Yorker , where he wrote scientific essays, and also wrote for The Atlantic Monthly , New York Review of Books and Scientific American . He was also Adjunct Professor at Rockefeller University in New York, Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology (where he is now Professor Emeritus) and Vice President of the Board of Trustees at the Aspen Center for Physics . He was visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of Kathmandu in Nepal , the University of Islamabad and visiting scholar at the École polytechnique in Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study (1957 to 1959), the University of Oxford, at CERN and the Brookhaven National Laboratory .
In addition to books on physics, he also published books on the Himalayan region and mountaineering.
In 1979 he received the Brandeis Creative Arts Medal for his essays and popular science publications. He was a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts .
Fonts
Physics and popular science writings:
- Elementary particles and their currents , Freeman 1968
- Kinetic theory in the expanding universe , Cambridge University Press, 1988
- with Gerald Feinberg (Ed.): Cosmological constants - papers in modern cosmology , Columbia University Press 1986
- Plutonium - a history of the worlds most dangerous element , Cornell University Press 2009
- Nuclear Weapons - what you need to know , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-88408-2
- The life it brings - one physicists beginnings , Ticknor and Field, Penguin 1987
- A theory of Everything , Springer 1996 (essays)
- Quantum Profiles , Princeton University Press 1990 ( John Stewart Bell , John Archibald Wheeler , Correspondence Albert Einstein - Michele Besso ), ISBN 0-691-08725-3
- Three degrees above zero - Bell Labs in the information age , Scribners, New York 1984
- A Physicist on Wall Street and other essays on science and society , Springer 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-76505-1
- Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics , Oxford University Press 1996
- Science observed - essays out of my mind , Basic Books 1982
- Cranks, quarks and the cosmos - writings on science , Basic Books 1993
- The merely personal: observations on science and scientists , Ivan Dee, Chicago 2001
- Oppenheimer - portrait of an enigma , Ivan Dee, Chicago 2004
- Hans Bethe - prophet of energy , Basic Books 1980
- Editor with David C. Cassidy : Hitler's uranium club - the secret recordings of Farm Hall , American Institute of Physics 1996
- Analytical engine - computers past, present and future , Random House 1964
- Comprehensible world - on modern science and its origin , Random House 1967
- Einstein , Viking Press 1973, Penguin Books 1976
- Secrets of the old one: Albert Einstein 1905 , Copernicus Books, New York, 2006
- Experiencing Science , Basic Books 1978
- with Paul Fishbane, Stephen Gasiorowicz: Modern Physics , Prentice Hall 2000
- Tenth dimension: an informal history of high energy physics , McGraw Hill 1989
- Quantum Leaps , Belknap Press 2009
Others:
- Ascent - of the invention of mountain climbing and its Practice , Random House 1965
- Wildest dreams of Kew - a profile of Nepal , Simon and Schuster 1970
- Dawning of the Raj - the life and trials of Warren Hastings , Ivan Dee 2000
- In the Himalayas - journeys through Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan , Simon and Schuster 1989
- Mountain Passages , University of Nebraska Press 1978, Touchstone 1989
Web links
- Website at the Stevens Institute of Technology on Bernstein and his book Plutonium
- Literature by and about Jeremy Bernstein in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernstein, Jeremy. Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernstein, Jeremy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochester , New York , United States |