Tony Rothman
Tony Rothman (born April 24, 1953 ) is an American theoretical physicist , non-fiction and science fiction author.
Life
Rothman is the son of the physicist and science fiction author Milton A. Rothman (1919-2001). Rothman graduated from Swarthmore College (1975) and received his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. At the same time he studied Russian at the University of Leningrad, among others. He was a post-doctoral student at Oxford University, Lomonosov University in Moscow and the University of Cape Town . He was a lecturer at Harvard University from 1990 to 1992 , taught at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College and most recently at Princeton University . As a physicist, he was mainly concerned with cosmology , with extreme black holes and the observability of gravitons.
In 1983 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for his essay on Evariste Galois . In 1981 he received the Analog Award for Demythologizing the Black Hole together with Richard Matzner and Tsvi Piranden .
He wrote for Scientific American (of which he was also co-editor in 1988/89), published several popular science books and is the author of science fiction and plays. He was the scientific editor of the English edition of Andrei Sakharov's memoirs .
bibliography
- Fiction
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The world is round (Ballantine 1978, science fiction)
- German: The world is round. Translated by Gottfried Feidel. Heyne-Science-Fiction & Fantasy # 4058, 1984, ISBN 3-453-31001-2 .
- Censored Tales (Pan Macmillan 1989, Short Stories About Russia)
- Firebird (Wildside Press 2013, science fiction)
- Course of Fortune: A Novel of the Great Siege of Malta (iBooks 2015)
- Non-fiction
- Frontiers of modern physics: new perspectives on cosmology, relativity, black holes, and extraterrestrial intelligence (Dover 1985)
- The short life of Évariste Galois (Freeman 1987)
- Science à la mode: physical fashions and fictions (Princeton University Press 1989, Paperback 1991, collection of essays)
- A physicist on Madison Avenue (Princeton University Press 1991, essay collection, Pulitzer nominee)
- Instant physics: from Aristotle to Einstein, and beyond (Ballantine Books 1995)
- Doubt and Certainty: the celebrated academy (Basic Books 1998, with ECG Sudarshan )
- Everything's relative and other fables from science and technology (Wiley 2003)
- Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry (Princeton University Press 2008, with Fukagawa Hidetoshi, won the Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Mathematics 2008)
- Physics mastery for advanced high school students: complete physics review with 400 SAT and AP physics questions (CreateSpace 2016)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 350.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 842.
- Hans-Ulrich Böttcher: The world is round. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1986. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-31233-3 , pp. 604-607.
- John Clute : Rothman, Tony. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tony Rothman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Tony Rothman in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Tony Rothman in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Works by and about Tony Rothman at Open Library
- Homepage of Tony Rothman
Individual evidence
- ^ Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois , Amer. Math. Monthly 89 (1982), pp. 84-106.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rothman, Tony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1953 |