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Gerald Feinberg

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Gerald Feinberg

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American physicist (1933–1992)

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Born
1933
Works
14

Top works

  • Field theory of weak interactions
  • Meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions
  • Life Beyond Earth
  • What is the world made of?
  • The Prometheus project

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Quotes

  • Even such supposedly fundamental drives as having children vary significantly with the social situation; this drive was effectively repressed in the upper classes in Imperial Rome ...
  • Developments in the 20th century have made the future of life, especially human life, on earth somewhat more uncertain than it previously was. I refer of course to the possiblity of all-out nuclear war. and to the possibility of on a global scale.
  • To determine what science will be in the future, we need a conception of what science is. I define science as "the systematic effort to understand ."

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Gerald
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
Manhattan
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Tsung-Dao Lee
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date of birth
1933-05-27
date of death
1992-04-21
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