| Activity | Education:
Winchester College; Cambridge University
Career:
War service, Operations Research, RAF Bomber Command (1943-1945); Commonwealth Fellow, Cornell University and Institute for Advanced Study (1947-1949); Professor of Physics, Cornell University (1951-1953) ; Professor Emeritus Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1953-); Rydell Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, Minnesota (1999); member of NASA Advisory Council (2001-2003);
Medals/Awards:
Danny Heineman Prize, American Institute of Physics, 1965; Germant Award by the American Institute of Physics, 1988; Britannica Award for dissemination of knowledge, 1990; Matteucci Medal of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze dei Quarant, Rome, Italy, 1990; Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 1991; Wright Prize by Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, 1994; Enrico Fermi award of US Department of Energy, 1995; Lewis Thomas Prize, honouring the Scientist as Poet, by Rockefeller Univeristy, 1996; Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize by the Accademia Nazionale dei Linci, Rome, 1996; Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, 2000; Henri Poincare Prize of the International Mathematical Physics Congress, 2012
Memberships:
American Physical Society; US National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Russian academy of Sciences (2011); |
| PublishedWorks | 'Disturbing the Universe', 1979; 'Weapons of Hope', 1984; 'Infinite in all directions', 1988; 'Origins of Life', CUP, 1986, second edition 1999; 'From Eros to Gaia', 1992; 'Imagined Worlds', 1997; 'The Sun, the Genome and the Internet', 1999; 'The Scientist as a Rebel', 2006; 'A Many coloured Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe', 2007; |