Tony Rothman
 Tony
Rothman (b. 1953) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in
cosmology, and science fiction writer.
Rothman holds 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. After returning to the United States,
Rothman briefly worked as an editor at Scientific American, then went on to
teach at Harvard, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College and more
recently at Princeton University.
Rothman's scientific reasearch has been mostly in the areas of general
relativity and cosmology, where he has made contributions to the study of the
early universe, specifically cosmic nucleosynthesis, black holes, inflationary
cosmology and gravitons.
Tony is the son of science fiction writer
Milton A
Rothman, which largely
explains why he also has maintained a writing career along with his scientific
one. 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 planet with a rather unique feature. His experiences in Russia
led to the 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 was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov's Memoirs and he has
contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American, Discover, The
New Republic and History Today.
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