Welcome to my web site!
I am Benjamin Bederson, husband of Betty, father of Joshua,
I am Professor of Physics Emeritus,
Ben and Betty ca. 1979
For an article on my service in the Manhattan Project
at Los Alamos and the island of Tinian in the US Army during WWII published
in the journal Physics in Perspective, Birkhauser
Verlag, Basil, edited by Roger Stuewer
and
For an article on the history of physics in
For an article about Fritz Reiche and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars published
in Physics in Perspective (Vol.7, 453 (2005)) see FritzReiche.pdf It
contains a copy of a telegram sent to him on Nov. 14, 1938 by
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner as well as some other
interesting material. For two letters which discuss, first, a proposal to
Gregory Breit of NYU by Leo Szilard that American
physics professors with income above a certain amount contribute a modest part
of their salaries to aid in the resettlement of immigrant European scientists
and, second, a lengthy letter (1933) from a representative of the US
State Department in response to an inquiry by Judge Joseph Meyer Proskauer (1877-1971) of the American Jewish Committee concerning US visa policies with regard to Jewish
refugee applicants, see Two
Letters
For more than you might want to know about my professional activities see the volume “Advances in Atomic , Molecular, and Optical Physics” Vol. 51, Academic Press 2005, Edited by Henry H. Stroke. For a brief Curriculum Vitae, without a list of publications (see above reference for a full list), see Resume.
For a book review of the recent biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Abraham Pais, with Robert P. Crease, J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life see Pais
For a
book review of the recent biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and
Martin J. Sherwin, “American Prometheus:The
Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” see Kai Bird and
Martin J Sherwin.
For a
review of the recent
book by D. Hoffman and M. Walker, The German Physical Society in the Third
Reich; Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation, Translated by A. M. Hentschel, Cambridge (2012), see Physics in Perspective 14,
458 (2012)