Gerald Feinberg

Gerald Feinberg
Born(1933-05-27)May 27, 1933
New York City
DiedApril 21, 1992(1992-04-21) (aged 58)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsColumbia University
ThesisMeson Production in Nucleon-Nucleon Collisions (1957)
Doctoral advisorTsung-Dao Lee
Doctoral studentsScott Dodelson

Gerald Feinberg (27 May 1933 – 21 April 1992) was a Columbia University physicist, futurist and popular science author. He spent a year as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and two years at the Brookhaven Laboratories.[1] Feinberg went to Bronx High School of Science with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow and obtained his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Columbia University.[2][3] His father was Yiddish poet and journalist Leon Feinberg.[4] Among his students were Scott Dodelson, physicist at Carnegie Mellon University.

  1. ^ "Gerald Feinberg, 58, Physicist; Taught at Columbia University". Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  2. ^ The Second Creation, Crease & Mann, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986
  3. ^ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1988). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
  4. ^ "Leon Feinberg, 71, Yiddish Journalist" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. CXVIII, no. 40542. New York, N.Y. 23 January 1969. p. 27.