Jeremy Bernstein, Author . Ivan R. Dee $25 (238p) ISBN 978-1-56663-569-1
In his preface to this portrait, Bernstein (Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos
, etc.) is up front with his intentions; "I make no pretense of trying to write a 'definitive' biography of Oppenheimer." Bernstein, a physicist who was a...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author . Springer $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-387-26005-1
In just one year, 1905, Albert Einstein published four papers that transformed the field of physics and ushered in the modern world of science. Veteran science writer Bernstein (Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
) examines each of these papers,...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author . Joseph Henry $27.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-309-10296-4
With an appreciation of the technical ingenuity, human drama and cultural impact of the electrical grid, physicist and playwright Schewe illuminates how electricity has catalyzed both the best and worst of modernity since Thomas Edison devised the...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author . Harvard/Belknap $18.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-674-03541-6
Bernstein, a former New Yorker
staff writer and prolific popular-science author (Plutonium
), embarks on an almost quixotic attempt to explain the mysteries of quantum mechanics. It's a daunting topic. The legendary nuclear physicist Niels...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56663-281-2
Acclaimed biographer Bernstein (Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics) looks at the history behind the impeachment trial of the 18th century--a trial that lasted seven years, involved some of the epoch's greatest figures (Edmund Burke,...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $26 (245p) ISBN 978-1-56663-344-4
In this collection of 13 essays, some original, some previously published in the American Scholar, Commentary and elsewhere, Bernstein, a theoretical physicist and veteran writer of the ""human side of science,"" whose Einstein was nominated for a...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author Ticknor & Fields $16.45 (171p) ISBN 978-0-89919-470-7
Bernstein's books include works on Einstein, Hans Bethe, elementary particlesand mountain climbing. This New Yorker staff writer and teacher seems utterly guileless in this midcareer memoir of his early years, carrying his story to the threshold of...
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Jeremy Bernstein, Author Basic Books $23 (220p) ISBN 978-0-465-08897-3
This is the third collection from physicist Bernstein, whose New Yorker column, ``The Annals of Science,'' begun in the 1960s, popularized literary profiles of scientists. His first collection, Experiencing Science , published in 1978, contains what
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Jeremy Bernstein. Harvard/Belknap, $18.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-674-07251-0
Casting subatomic particles across a metaphorical painter’s palette, Bernstein (Quantum Leaps) blends science, history, and anecdote (including his own work on staff at Harvard University and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study) to reveal the...
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