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 earned his doctorate at Julian Schwinger 1955. As a theoretical physicist, he worked on elementary particle physics and cosmology. He is best known as a nonfiction writer in the U.S., for example, nuclear weapons, its history, and related problems, and of biographies of physicists (Robert Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Albert Einstein and others). He was able to draw on his personal acquaintance with many famous physicists. He was over 30 years to 1993 permanently employed as a journalist for The New Yorker, where he wrote scientific essays, and wrote, for example, for The Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Review of Books and Scientific American. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York, a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology ( where he is now Professor Emeritus ) and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Center of Physics. He was a visiting professor, among others at Princeton University and the University of Kathmandu in Nepal, the University Islamabad and a guest researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study ( 1957-1959 ), the University of Oxford, at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

In addition to books on physics, he also published books on the Himalayan region, and mountain climbing.

In 1979 he received the Brandeis Creative Arts Medal for his essays and popular science publications. He was Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

Writings

Physics and popular science journals:

  • Elementary particles and Their currents, Freeman 1968
  • Kinetic theory in the expanding universe, Cambridge University Press, 1988
  • With Gerald Feinberg (ed.): Cosmological constants - in modern cosmology papers, 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 personnel: observations on science and scientists, Ivan Dee, Chicago, 2001
  • Oppenheimer - portrait of an enigmatic, Ivan Dee, 2004 Chicago
  • Hans Bethe - prophet of energy, Basic Books 1980
  • Published by 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 in 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

Other:

  • 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
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