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        3. Biography & autobiography.
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          Martin A. Fisher School of Physics

          Silvan S. Schweber

          (1928-2017)
          Professor of Physics, Emeritus
          Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas

          Degree

          PhD, Princeton University, 1952

          Awards/Fellowships

          • Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, 2011
          • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

          Research

          Silvan Schweber was involved in research in the history of science.

          Areas included the history of quantum field theory since World War II, the visualization of elementary processes (Feynman diagrams), and the impact of these methods on the conceptualization of physics; post-World War II science; science at the end of the century; and a biography of Hans A.

          Bethe.

          Sample of Publications

          Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius, Harvard University Press, 2008.

          In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, Princeton University Press, 2000.

          August Comte and the Nebular Hypothesis in In the Presence of the Past,