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Paul Halpern

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Paul Halpern

Paul Halpern (/ˈhælpərn/; born 1961) is an American author and Professor of Physics at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

Life

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Halpern studied at Temple University and graduated in 1982 with a B.A. in physics and mathematics.[1][2] He went on to receive a Masters degree in Physics and later a Ph.D in theoretical physics in 1987 from Stony Brook University.[1][3]

In 2002, Halpern received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[1][4] He has also received a Fulbright Scholarship and an Athenaeum Society Literary Award.

He has written many popular science books and articles, including the books The Cyclical Serpent, Cosmic Wormholes and The Great Beyond. He has also appeared on the 1994 PBS series Futurequest, as well as the National Public Radio show "Radio Times."[citation needed]

In 2007, he published a book based on The Simpsons titled What's Science Ever Done for Us. He later appeared in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!.[5]

Halpern published Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat in 2015, The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality in 2017, Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect in 2020, and Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate in 2021.

In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[6]

Works

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Paul Halpern, Ph.D." Charlesbridge. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  2. ^ "Templar 1982". digital.library.temple.edu. 1982. p. 279. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  3. ^ "Chaos and the dynamics of the universe | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  4. ^ "Paul Halpern". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  5. ^ Paul Halpern at IMDb
  6. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (Search on year="2017" & nominating_unit="FHPP".)
  7. ^ Dickinson, Lucy (2008). "Review of What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe by Paul Halpern". Materials Today. 11 (1–2): 51. doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(07)70356-5.
  8. ^ Sauer, Tilman (June 2016). "Review of Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics by Paul Halpern". Isis. 107 (2): 427–428. doi:10.1086/687134.
  9. ^ Farmelo, Graham (5 October 2017). "Review of The Quantum Labyrinth". Nature. 550 (7674): 40–41. Bibcode:2017Natur.550...40F. doi:10.1038/550040a.
  10. ^ Ananthaswamy, Anil (26 August 2020). "When quantum physics met psychiatry". Nature. 584 (7822): 513–514. Bibcode:2020Natur.584..513A. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02456-5. S2CID 221310909.
  11. ^ Skibba, Ramin (24 August 2021). "When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
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