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Jeremy Bernstein is a theoretical physicist and the author, most recently, of A Bouquet of Numbers and Other Scientific Offerings, a collection of essays. (December 2016).
Great Scientists Against Terrible Odds
Physics in a Mad World
edited by M. Shifman and translated from the Russian by James Manteith
December 8, 2016 issue
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