Leonard Mlodinov

Leonard Mlodinow (2012)

Leonard David Mlodinow (* 1954 in Chicago ) is an American physicist and author .

Life

During his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley and at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), he developed a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics . He later received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich , where he and Mark Hillery carried out fundamental research on the quantum theory of dielectric materials. Leonard Mlodinow is currently visiting professor at Caltech.

In addition to his physical research and popular science publications, Mlodinow has written scripts for various television series such as Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century and MacGyver, as well as a children's book series with Matt Costello.

Awards

Mlodinov's work has been awarded the following prizes and honors:

• 2013 PEN / EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for his work Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior.
• 2008 Pobert P. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) for his work The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.

Fonts

• The large N expansion in quantum mechanics. University of California, Berkeley, 1981 ( dissertation )
• Euclid's Window. 2001
  • The window to the universe. A little history of geometry. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2002, ISBN 3-593-36931-1
• Feynman's Rainbow. 2003
  • Feynman's rainbow. The search for beauty in physics and in life. Reclam, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-00826-5 ; Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-62177-2
• with Stephen Hawking : A Briefer History of Time. 2005
  • The shortest history of time . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 3-499-62197-5 ; Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-62197-0
• The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. 2008
  • When God rolls the dice or How chance determines our lives. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-04514-2
• with Stephen Hawking: The grand design. 2010
  • The Great Draft: A New Declaration of the Universe . Rowohlt. Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-02991-3 ; Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-62301-1
• with Deepak Chopra : War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality. 2011
  • Creation or coincidence? How Spirituality and Physics Explain the World - A Debate. E-book. Arcana, 2012, ISBN 978-3-641-07358-9
• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. 2012

Web links

Wikiquote: Leonard Mlodinow  - Quotes

• Official website
• Literature by and about Leonard Mlodinow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leonard Mlodinow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Leonard Mlodinow at perlentaucher.de
• Review of Feynman's rainbow in the Physik Journal by M. Lich (September 2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carolyn Kellogg: Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards . In: Los Angeles Times . August 14, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
2. ↑ Barry Karr : CSI's Balles Prize Goes to Physicist / Author Leonard Mlodinow . CSICOP. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 18, 2016.