Name Tony Rothman Parents Milton A. Rothman | Role Physicist | |
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Born 29 April 1953 (age 70)
Philadelphia ( 1953-04-29 ) Occupation Physicist, Cosmologist, Science Fiction Writer Genre Science fiction (hard SF), popular science Education University of Cape Town, University of Texas at Austin, Swarth College People also search for Hidetoshi Fukagawa, E. C. George Sudarshan, Milton A. Rothman Books Sacred Mathematics, Instant Physics, Doubt and certainty, Everything's Relative, Science a LA Mode | ||
Tony Rothman promotes Firebird at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Tony Rothman (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist, academic and writer.
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Early life
Tony is the son of physicist and science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman. Rothman has a B.A. from Swarthmore College, (1975) and a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin (1981), where he studied at the Center for Relativity. He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the University of Moscow and the University of Cape Town.
Career
Rothman worked briefly as an editor at Scientific American, then taught at Harvard, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College and more recently at Princeton University.
Rothman's scientific research has been concerned mainly with general relativity and cosmology, for which he has made contributions to the study of the early universe, specifically cosmic nucleosynthesis, black holes, inflationary cosmology and gravitons.
Rothman was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov's Memoirs and he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American, Discover, American Scientist, The New Republic and History Today. He has played oboe at a professional level and commissioned a concerto from Alexander Raskatov.
Selected works
Tony Rothman's first book, written just after graduating college, was The World is Round (Ballantine, 1978), a science fiction novel about the evolution of society on a non-earthlike planet. His experiences in Russia resulted in publication of a collection of short stories entitled Censored Tales (1989). He has also published six books of popular science and science history. His collection A Physicist on Madison Avenue (1991) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, while Doubt and Certainty, with George Sudarshan, was chosen by the A-List as one of the 200 best books of 1998. He co-authored Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry with Fukagawa Hidetoshi. Published in 2008, this was the first history of sangaku in English, and won the Association of American Publisher's 2008 PROSE award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in mathematics.
Rothman's published writings encompass hundreds of works in 7 languages and include 3,073 library holdings.