Tony Rothman

Tony Rothman ( born April 24, 1953) is an American physicist and writer.

Rothman is the son of the physicist and science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman ( 1919-2001 ). Rothman studied at Swarthmore College (Bachelor 1975) and in 1981 received his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin in astrophysics. At the same time he studied Russian, among others, at the University of Leningrad. As a post - graduate student he was at Oxford University, the Lomonosov University in Moscow and the University of Cape Town. He was from 1990 to 1992 Lecturer at Harvard University, taught at the Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College, and most recently at Princeton University. As a physicist, he dealt primarily with cosmology, with extremal black holes and the observability of gravitons.

In 1983 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award for his essay on Evariste Galois.

He wrote, among other things, for Scientific American ( where he was also the 1988/89 co-editor ), published several popular science books and is the author of science fiction and plays. He was a scientific editor of the English edition of the memoirs of Andrei Sakharov

Writings

  • The world is round, Ballantine, 1978 ( Science Fiction )
  • Frontiers of modern physics: new perspectives on cosmology, relativity, black holes, and extraterrestrial intelligence, Dover 1985
  • Science à la mode: physical fashions and fictions, Princeton University Press, 1989, paperback 1991 ( collection of essays )
  • Censored Tales, Pan Macmillan, 1989 ( short stories about Russia)
  • A physicist on Madison Avenue, Princeton University Press, 1991 ( collection of essays, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize )
  • Instant physics: from Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond, Ballantine Books 1995
  • With ECG Sudarshan Doubt and Certainty: the Celebrated academy, Basic Books 1998
  • Everything's relative and other fables from science and technology, Wiley, 2003
  • Fukagawa Hidetoshi with Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry, Princeton University Press, 2008 ( the book won the Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Mathematics 2008)
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