Faculty Guide

Title

Professor Emeritus of Physics

Physics

Expertise

History and philosophy of science. Quantum theory of measurements.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society (1997 - 1998)

Co-editor, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (1996)

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996)

Chair, History of Physics Division, American Physical Society (1992 - 1993)

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)

Fellow, American Academy for the Advancement of Science (1990)

American Council Learned Societies grant-in-aid (1984)

Richard Koret Chair in History of Ideas (1982)

Honorary Research Associate in the History of Science, Harvard (1977)

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1952)

Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship, Princeton (1950)

M.A. Wood Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania (1947)

Research Scholarship, CCNY (1946)

Scholarship

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

Schweber,Silvan S. co-ed. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 1996.

Schweber,Silvan S. QED and the Men who Made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Schweber,Silvan S. Aspects of the LIfe and Thought of John Hershel. NY:Arno Press, 1982.

Schweber,Silvan S, with Bethe and deHoffman. Quantum Theory of Fields. Row Peterson, 1960.

Schweber,Silvan S, with Bethe and deHoffman. esons and Fields, Vol. 1. 1956.