Tony Rothman
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Tony Rothman (né en 1953) est un physicien, universitaire et écrivain de science-fiction américain[1].
Biographie
Tony est le fils de l'écrivain de science-fiction Milton A. Rothman.
Rothman obtient son B.A. au Swarthmore College en 1975 puis son Ph.D à l'université d'Austin au Texas en 1981. Il y étudie ensuite la relativité générale au Center for Relativity. Il continue des études post-doctorales à l'université d'Oxford, à l'université de Moscou et à l'université de Cape Town.
Rothman travaille brièvement comme éditeur au Scientific American, puis il prend un poste à Harvard, à l'université de Wesleyan, et au Bryn Mawr College et plus récemment à l'université de Princeton.
Rothman est aussi éditeur scientifique des Mémoires du russe Andrei Sakharov. Il a écrit dans de nombreux magazines tels Scientific American, Discover, The New Republic et History Today.
Publications
Le premier écrit de Tony Rothman est le roman The World is Round (Ballantine, 1978), un texte de science fiction à propos de l'évolution d'une civilisation extraterrestre sur une planète semblable à la Terre.
- 2008 Sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry (avec Hidetoshi Fukagawa)
- 2003 Everything's relative: and other fables from science and technology
- 1998 Doubt and certainty: the celebrated academy (avec E.C.G. Sudarshan)
- 1995 Instant physics: from Aristotle to Einstein, and beyond
- 1991 A physicist on Madison Avenue
- 1989 Science à la mode: physical fashions and fictions
- 1989 Censored tales
- 1985 Frontiers of modern physics: new perspectives on cosmology, relativity, black holes, and extraterrestrial intelligence
- 1978 The world is round
Notes et références
Annexes
Articles connexes
Liens externes
Catégories :
- Écrivain américain de science-fiction
- Physicien américain
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