Paul Halpern

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

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

2002 Guggenheim Fellowship, he was awarded. In 1996 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Halpern is the author of several popular science books and completed 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

• Holes in space: models for travel through space and time. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-60356- X
• School is what kind of failure: What can we learn from the Simpsons about physics, biology, robotics and life. Rowohlt Paperback -Verl., Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-62385-1
• The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything.
• The Cyclical Serpent: Prospects for at Ever - Repeating Universe.
• The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds Outside the Solar System.
• Collider: The Search for the World 's Smallest Particles.
• Countdown to Apocalypse: A Scientific Exploration of the End of the World.
• By Paul Wesson: Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos.