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DR. TONY ROTHMAN
Tony Rothman, Ph.D. is a cosmologist who studies the Big Bang
and related events. One of his
more recent interests has been the investigation of extremal black
holes, black holes on the verge of becoming naked singularities, as
well as on the detection of gravitons.
Tony earned his B.A. in physics from
Swarthmore College in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the Center for
Relativity
at the University of Texas, Austin in 1981. His area of specialization
is cosmology, the study of the early universe, and he has authored
about fifty scientific papers on that subject.
While a
graduate
student he studied Russian at Middlebury's Summer Language
School and at Leningrad State University. After leaving Texas he did
post-doctoral work in cosmology at Oxford, Moscow, and Cape Town.
He has been on the Editorial Board of Scientific American
(1988-1989). From 1990 to 1992 he was a Lecturer at Harvard. He has
also been on the faculty at Bennington, Illinois Wesleyan University
and Bryn Mawr College. He currently lectures at Princeton University.
Apart from his scientific work, Tony has published nine books.
Most recent is
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry.
He also authored
Everything's Relative and Other Fables From Science and
Technology and coauthored
Doubt and Certainty which was chosen by the "A-List" as one
of the 200 most notable books of 1998. The others are a novel
The World is Round, three collections of
essays:
Frontiers of Modern Physics,
Science a la Mode
(Princeton, 1989; paperback, 1991),
A Physicist on Madison Avenue,
(Princeton, 1991); a collection of short stories about Russia entitled
Censored Tales; and
Instant Physics. Both Princeton books were chosen as Library of
Science Book Club selections. A Physicist on Madison Avenue was
also
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Tony was the scientific editor for
Sakharov's memoirs.
In addition he has written five plays,
The Magician and the Fool,
which won the Oxford 1981-1982 Experimental Theatre Club Competition;
The Sand Reckoner, staged at Harvard in 1995;
Mélisande
(1991);
Plausibility, about Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil (1998);
and
recently,
The Fiery Angel. His work on
Galois won the Mathematical
Association of America's Ford Writing Award for 1983. He has
contributed to The New Republic, Boston Review, Bostonia, Scientific
American, Discover, Analog, Astronomy, the Gettysburg Review and
elsewhere.
Listen to his
NPR interview about
Hedy Lamarr's "Secret Communication System".
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