Jeremy Bernstein

Jeremy Bernstein (born December 31, 1929) is an American

Early life

Bernstein's parents, Philip S. Bernstein, a

Bernstein was involved in Project Orion, investigating the potential for nuclear pulse propulsion for use in space travel.^[5]

Popular writing

Bernstein is a popular science writer and profiler of scientists. He was a staff writer for

Books

• Analytical Engine – Computers Past, Present and Future, Random House, 1964
• A Comprehensible World: On Modern Science and its Origin, Random House, 1967[8]^[9]
• Elementary Particles and Their Currents, Freeman, 1968
• Einstein, Viking Press 1973, Penguin Books, 1976
• Experiencing Science, Basic Books, 1978
• Hans Bethe – Prophet of Energy, Basic Books, 1980
• Science Observed – Essays Out of My Mind, Basic Books, 1982
• Three Degrees Above Zero – Bell Labs in the Information Age, Scribners, 1984^[10]
• Cosmological Constants – Papers in Modern Cosmology (with
  ISBN 978-0-231-06376-0
• The Life it Brings – One Physicist's Beginnings, Ticknor and Field, Penguin, 1987
  ISBN 0-89919-470-2^[11]
• Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe, Cambridge University Press, 1988
• Tenth Dimension: an Informal History of High Energy Physics, McGraw Hill, 1989
• Quantum Profiles conversations with physicists
  ISBN 978-0-190-05686-5
• Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos – Writings on Science, Basic Books, 1993
  ISBN 978-0-465-08897-3^[12][13]
• A Theory of Everything (Essays), Springer, 1996
• Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics, Oxford University Press, 1996
• Hitler's Uranium Club – The Secret Recordings of
  Farm Hall (with David C. Cassidy), American Institute of Physics
  , 1996
• Modern Physics (with Paul Fishbane, Stephen Gasiorowicz), Prentice Hall, 2000
• The Merely Personal: Observations on Science and Scientists, Ivan Dee, 2001[14]
• Oppenheimer – Portrait of an Enigma, Ivan Dee, 2004
  ISBN 978-1-566-63569-1^[15]
• Secrets of the Old One: Albert Einstein 1905, Copernicus Books, 2006
• ISBN 978-0-309-10296-4
• A Physicist on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society, Springer, 2008
  ISBN 978-0-387-76505-1
• Quantum Leaps, Belknap Press, 2009; 2011 pbk edition
  ISBN 978-0674060142
• A Palette of Particles, Harvard University Press, 2013
  ISBN 978-0-674-07251-0^[16]
• Nuclear Weapons – What You Need to Know, Cambridge University Press, 2010
  ISBN 978-0-521-88408-2
• A Chorus of Bells and Other Scientific Inquiries, World Scientific, 2014
  ISBN 978-981-4578-94-3
• A Bouquet of Numbers and Other Scientific Offerings, World Scientific, 2016
  ISBN 978-981-4759-76-2
• A Bouquet of Dyson and Other Reflections on Science and Scientists, World Scientific, 2018
  ISBN 978-981-3231-92-4

Media appearances

• To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (BBC, 2003)^[17]

References

1. ^ Jeremy Bernstein, Personal History, “I-THE LIFE IT BRINGS,” The New Yorker, January 26, 1987, p. 35
2. ^ Jeremy Bernstein, Personal History, “II-THE LIFE IT BRINGS,” The New Yorker, February 2, 1987, p. 39
3. ^ ^{a b} "Jeremy Bernstein," Encyclopædia Britannica
4. ^ ^{a b} "Jeremy Bernstein (member bio)" at Edge.org
5. ^ Bernstein, Jeremy (May 4, 2020). "Reflections on Project Orion". Inference. 5 (2).
6. ^ The New Yorker, Search:Jeremy Bernstein
7. ^ World Scientific Books
8. ^ Gardiner, Martin (October 1967). "Review of A Comprehensible World by Jeremy Bernstein". Commentary.
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13. ^ "Review of Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos: Writings on Science by Jeremy Bernstein". Publishers Weekly. February 1993.
14. ^ "Review of The Merely Personal: Observations on Science and Scientists by Jeremy Bernstein". Publishers Weekly. February 1, 2001.
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16. ^ "Review of A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein". Publishers Weekly. December 17, 2012.
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