Tony Rothman is an American theoretical physicist, academic and writer. Tony is the son of science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman. Rothman has a B.A. from Swarthmore College, and a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin , where he studied at the Center for Relativity. He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the University of Moscow and the University of Cape Town. Rothman worked briefly as an editor at Scientific American, then taught at Harvard, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College and more recently at Princeton University. Rothman's scientific research has... been concerned mainly with general relativity and cosmology, for which he has made contributions to the study of the early universe, specifically cosmic nucleosynthesis, black holes, inflationary cosmology and gravitons. Rothman was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov's Memoirs and he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American, Discover, The New Republic and History Today. He has played oboe at a professional level and commissioned a concerto from Aleksandr Raskatov.
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