Paul Halpern

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Paul Halpern (2015)

Paul H. Halpern (born January 15, 1961 in Philadelphia ) is an American physicist . He is known for a number of popular science books.

Halpern graduated from Temple University with a bachelor's degree in 1982 and the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a master's degree in 1984 and a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1987. He was then Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College . Halpern was Associate Professor from 1988 and has been Professor of Physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia since 1999 .

In 2002 he was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship . In 1996 he was a Fulbright scholar at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Halpern is the author of several popular science books and has made appearances on radio and television. In his popular science books he deals with astrophysics and cosmology, the problem of time and time travel, and extraterrestrial life and exoplanets . As a scientist, he deals with chaos theory , including general relativity .

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

He has been married since 1994 and has two children.

bibliography

  • The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality . Basic Books, 2017, ISBN 978-0-465-09758-6 .
  • Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics . Basic Books, 2015, ISBN 978-0-465-07571-3 .
  • Edge of the Universe: A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond . Wiley, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-470-63624-4 .
  • Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles . Wiley, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-28620-3 .
  • What's Science Ever Done for Us? What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe. New York: . Wiley, 2007, ISBN 978-4-7011-4606-9 . in German translation: School is something for failure: What we can learn from the Simpsons about physics, biology, robots and life . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-62385-1 .
  • Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos . National Academies Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-309-10137-0 (with Paul Wesson).
  • The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything . Wiley, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-471-46595-9 .
  • The Cyclical Serpent: Prospects for an Ever-Repeating Universe . Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7382-0884-8 .
  • Countdown to Apocalypse: A Scientific Exploration of the End of the World . Perseus, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7382-0358-4 .
  • The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds Outside the Solar System . Plenum, New York 1997, ISBN 0-306-45623-0 .
  • Cosmic Wormholes: The Search for Interstellar Shortcuts . Dutton Adult, 1992, ISBN 978-0-525-93477-6 . in German translation: Holes in space: models for travel through space and time . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-499-60356-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Profile at the University of the Sciences. usciences.edu, accessed October 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Dr. Paul Halpern Named American Physical Society Fellow. October 12, 2017, accessed October 20, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Halpern, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halpern, Paul H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia