JEREMY BERNSTEIN has been a professor of physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology since 1967 and was a staff writer for the New Yorker until 1993. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Rockefeller University and is a vice president of the board of trustees of the Aspen Center for Physics. He has held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Brookhaven National Laboratory, CERN, Oxford, the University of Islamabad, and the Ecole Polytechnique. Dr. Berstein has written over 50 technical papers as well as 12 books on popular science and mountain travel including In the Himalayas, Hitler's Uranium Club, and Dawning of the Raj.

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