Bernard T. Feld
Bernard Taub Feld(December 21, 1919 – February 19, 1993) was aprofessorofphysicsat theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.He helped develop theatomic bomb,and later led an international movement among scientists to banish nuclear weapons.[1]
Early life[edit]
Feld was born inBrooklyn,New York.He graduated from theCity College of New Yorkwith a bachelor of science degree in 1939. He began graduate school atColumbia University,but suspended his studies to join the American war effort. He spent the war serving as an assistant toEnrico FermiandLeó Szilárdworking on theManhattan Project.AfterWorld War II,he returned toColumbia Universityto receive his PhD in 1945 with thesis advisorWillis Lamb.
Career[edit]
I was involved in the original sin, and I have spent a large part of my life atoning for it. –Bernard T. Feld[2]
Feld was on the faculty of MIT from 1948 until he retired in 1990. During this time, he was President of theAlbert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation,editor of theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists,and head of theAmerican Pugwash Committee.[3][citation needed]
Feld was aFord FoundationFellow and a visiting scientist at theEuropean Center for Nuclear Research (CERN)inGeneva,Switzerland.[4][5]
ThePugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairswon theNobel Peace Prizein 1995. Feld was a leader in these conferences, serving as U.S. Chairman from 1963 to 1973 and as International Chairman from 1973 to 1978. It was in this role that he attracted the anger ofRichard Nixon's White House. He was eleventh onNixon's list of enemies,a fact that pleased him tremendously.[citation needed]
"One month after the election of Ronald Reagan, Feld being an editor of 'Bulletin of the American Atomic Scientists' reported that his publication had decided to move the hands on theDoomsday Clockfeatured on its cover from seven to four minutes to midnight, because, as 'the year drew to a close, the world seemed to be moving unevenly but inexorably closer to nuclear disaster.' "[6]
Selected publications[edit]
Articles[edit]
- Feld, Bernard T. (1953)."Nuclear moments".Annual Review of Nuclear Science.2(1): 239–260.Bibcode:1953ARNPS...2..239F.doi:10.1146/annurev.ns.02.120153.001323.
- —— (April 1962)."More Important than Shelters".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.18(4): 8–11.Bibcode:1962BuAtS..18d...8F.doi:10.1080/00963402.1962.11454340.
- —— (December 1964)."The Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.20(10): 2–6.Bibcode:1964BuAtS..20j...2F.doi:10.1080/00963402.1964.11454726.
- Roper, L. David; Wright, Robert M.; —— (1965). "Energy-Dependent Pion-Nucleon Phase-Shift Analysis".Physical Review.138(1B): B190–B210.Bibcode:1965PhRv..138..190R.doi:10.1103/PhysRev.138.B190.
- Janes, G. S.; Levy, R. H.; Bethe, H. A.; —— (1966). "New Type of Accelerator for Heavy Ions".Physical Review.145(3): 925–952.Bibcode:1966PhRv..145..925J.doi:10.1103/PhysRev.145.925.
- —— (May 1967)."A Pledge: No First Use".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.23(5): 46–48.Bibcode:1967BuAtS..23e..46F.doi:10.1080/00963402.1967.11455074.
- —— (April 1974)."The Menace of a Fission Power Economy".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.30(4): 32–34.Bibcode:1974BuAtS..30d..32F.doi:10.1080/00963402.1974.11458105.
- —— (June 1976)."The consequences of nuclear war".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.32(6): 10–13.Bibcode:1976BuAtS..32f..10F.doi:10.1080/00963402.1976.11455618.
- —— (March 1979)."Einstein and the politics of nuclear weapons".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.35(3): 5–16.Bibcode:1979BuAtS..35c...5F.doi:10.1080/00963402.1979.11458591.
Books[edit]
- Feld, B.T.; Feshbach, H.; Goldberger, M.L.; Goldstein, H.; Weisskopf, V.F. (January 1951).Final Report of the Fast Neutron Data Project.Report number: NYO-636, United States Atomic Energy Commission. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.
- —— (1979).A voice crying in the wilderness: essays on the problems of science and world affairs.Pergamon Press.ISBN0080231063.[7]
References[edit]
- ^"Remembering Bernie".Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:13–17. May 1993.
- ^Levy, Clifford J. (20 Feb 1993)."Bernard Feld, Who Led Scientists in Fighting Arms Race, Dies at 73".The New York Times.Retrieved25 May2023.
- ^Preliminary Inventory to the Papers of Bernard Taub Feld MC.0167, MIT, Institute Archives and Special Collections
- ^"Professor Bernard Feld dies at 73".MIT News.24 February 1993.Retrieved2019-07-12.
- ^Feld, Bernard T."Elementary Particle Physics - Lecture Courses Given at Cern in 1961"(PDF).CERNYellow Reports.Retrieved2019-07-12.
- ^Richard Pipes,"Vixi. Memoirs of Non-Belonger", Yale University Press, 2003
- ^Hodgson, Peter(22 November 1979)."Review ofA voice crying in the wildernessby Bernard T. Feld ".New Scientist:630.
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