Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) is a Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. His books include Information: The New Language of Science, and QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics.

Recipient of the of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Magazine Award, which cites his "uncommon literary grace".[1][2] He also received the 2005 Andrew Gemant Award for science writing, for prose "crisp, captivating and illuminating" with "depth, passion and clarity" in the ideas conveyed.[3]

von Baeyer graduated from Columbia College in 1958 and received his M.S. from the University of Miami and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.[4]He is a descendant of German geologist and military officer Johann Jacob Baeyer, whose son, Adolf von Baeyer, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[5]

In 1976, von Baeyer was selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[6]

Works[]

  • Rainbows, Snowflakes, and Quarks: Physics and the World Around Us. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1984. ISBN 0-07-067545-7.
  • The Fermi solution: Essays on Science. New York: Random House. 1993. ISBN 0-679-40031-1.
  • Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld (Penguin Science). London, England: Penguin Books Ltd. 1994. ISBN 0-14-015621-6.
  • Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat. New York: The Modern Library. 1999. ISBN 0-375-75372-9. OCLC 633751312. First published as Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes. Random House. 1998. ISBN 9780679433422. OCLC 37695758.
  • Information: The New Language of Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-674-01387-5.
  • QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2016. ISBN 9780674545342. OCLC 984642826.

References[]

  1. ^ "Hans Christian Von Baeyer | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  2. ^ Baeyer, Hans Christian Von (2001-01-01). The Fermi Solution: Essays on Science. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-41707-3.
  3. ^ "AIP Bestows Gemant Award on Von Baeyer". Physics Today. 58 (6): 73. 2007-01-12. doi:10.1063/1.1996484. ISSN 0031-9228.
  4. ^ "Hans C. von Baeyer". www.physics.wm.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  5. ^ "That Relentless Whirligig: What Physics Tells us about Time". Wolf Humanities Center. 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  6. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society.

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