Leonard Mlodinov ( born Leonard Mlodinow ; born 1954 ) is an American physicist , as well as the author of popular science books and screenwriter of television popular science programs.
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| Date of Birth | 1954 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago , Illinois , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 2013 ) [d] [d] ( 2008 ) humboldt prize |
| Site | leonardmlodinow.com |
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Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, into a Jewish family. [1] His parents survived the Holocaust . His father, who spent more than a year in the Buchenwald concentration camp , was the leader of Jewish resistance in the Nazi-occupied territories in his hometown of Czestochowa , Poland . Mother was a prisoner in a labor camp. They met their father in Brooklyn ( New York ) in 1948 .
As a child, Leonard was interested in mathematics and chemistry, while still at school he was interested in organic chemistry at the lectures of professors from the University of Illinois .
In 1973 , after the Doomsday War, having left for a semester in Israel to work in a kibbutz , he read Feynman's lectures on physics at night, one of the few books in English that was available in the kibbutz library.
Then Mlodinov studied at the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley , and at the California Institute of Technology was engaged in scientific development.
Rewards
- 2013 - PEN / EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for the book “(Neo) conscious. How the unconscious mind controls our behavior ” [2] [3]
Books
- Translated into Russian:
- Leonard Mlodinov. Euclidean window. History of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace = Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace. - M .: Gayatri / Livebook , 2014 .-- 368 p. - ISBN 978-5-904584-60-3 .
- Leonard Mlodinov. (Neo) conscious. How the unconscious mind controls our behavior = Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. - M .: Gayatri / Livebook , 2013 .-- 360 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-904584-68-9 .
- Leonard Mlodinov. (Not) A complete coincidence. How chance rules our life = The Drunkard's Walk. How Randomness Rules Our Lives. - M .: Gayatri / Livebook , 2013 .-- 352 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-904584-56-6 .
- Leonard Mlodinov. Feynman rainbow. The Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life = Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life. - M .: Gayatri / Livebook, 2014 .-- 240 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-904584-91-7 .
- Leonard Mlodinov. Homo erectus thinkers. The path of a person from living in trees to comprehending the world order = The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos. - M .: Gayatri / Livebook, 2016 .-- 496 p. - 4000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9907254-0-9 .
- Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinov. Shortest Time History = A Briefer History of Time. - SPb. : Amphora , 2005. - 5,000 (+5,000 extra, circulation) copies. - ISBN 5-367-00164-5 (Russian), 0-553-80436-7 (English), 978-5-367-02274-2.
- Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinov. Supreme Design = The Grand Design. - SPb. : Amphora, 2005 .-- 208 p. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-367-02218-6 .
Notes
- ↑ Interview with Leonard Mlodinov
- ↑ Carolyn Kellogg. Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards . Los Angeles Times (August 14, 2013). Date of treatment July 13, 2016.
- ↑ 2013 PEN / EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award . pen.org . Date of treatment July 13, 2016.
Links
- Personal site (English)
- Leonard MLODINOV // Elements.ru
- Leonard Mlodinov on the Internet Movie Database
- [www.peoples.ru/science/physics/leonard_mlodinow/ From scripts to god]