Silvan schweber biography definition

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,