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--Obituary for Freeman Dyson in Nature Magazine, 12 March 2020

--A review in Physics Today (February 2019) of Freeman's Dyson's published letters: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4144


--A review in Physics Today of a movie about physicist Richard Garwin: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.9014
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--A review in Physics Today (June 2014) of a book about extraterrestrial life: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/67/6/10.1063/PT.3.2420

--Essay in Physics Today "Freeman Dyson as the New Emerson"

--Lecture given at Singapore meeting devoted to Freeman Dyson, International Journal of Modern Physics B

--Review of “Farm Hall” presented at APS Baltimore meeting, Physics Today online, 4/2/13

--Article about Freeman Dyson’s role in Cuban Missile Crisis, FAS online, Oct 2012

--Article about Higgs boson discovery, Humanist, July 2012

--Article in Engineering & Technology about high energy collisions at RHIC, February 2011


--Review of physics ballet at University of Maryland, Physics Today online, Oct 2010

--Review of David Nye’s blackout book, American Scientist, Nov/Dec 2010

--Article about Dyson and climate change, Humanist, Jul/Aug 2010

--Article about time in E&T, May 18, 2009

--Article about recycled energy (with Thomas Casten) in American Scientist, Jan/Feb 2009

--Letter to the editor of the New York Times, about energy policy, Jan 26, 2009

--Article in Humanist, Dec 2008, about LHC

--Review of Kaku’s book “Physics of the Impossible,” E&T magazine, 23 July 2008

–“Engineering the Vacuum,” an article in Engineering and Technology magazine, May 2008.

–“Wired Together,” an article in Engineering and Technology magazine, October 2007.

–“Ode on Symmetry,” a book review in Nature Physics, July 2007.

–“Preventing Blackouts,” a feature article in Scientific American magazine, May 2007 (Massoud Amin, co-author).

–The Grid: A Journey to the Heart of Our Electrified World, a book published by the Joseph Henry Press (an impress of the National Academy Press), March 2007; reviewed in Nature, Wall Street Journal, numerous newspapers; cited as a top energy book in Wall Street Journal; picked among science books of the year by NPR

–“Power to the People,” an opinion piece in the New York Times, 11 March 2007.

--CSPAN item about power blackouts 

–“Electric Idyll,” an article in IEEE Spectrum magazine, October 2006.

–“The Leonard Bernstein of Science,” book review in Physics Perspective magazine, 2000

–“Whole Lotta Shakin’,” an article about granular materials in the Washington Post, 10 February 1999.

–On a weekly basis from 1990 to 2008: Physics News Update, a newsletter about physics research (www.aip.org/pnu).

–Ongoing on a monthly basis from 1995 to 2008, research news items in Physics Today magazine (http://www.aip.org/pt/).

–“Inner Space,” a proposal for an HBO science series, written with Adrian Malone, director of the programs “Cosmos” (Carl Sagan), and “The Ascent of Man” (Jacob Bronowski), 1998. (The program was not filmed.)

–“Dead White Male Composers,” a play performed at Source Theater, Washington, DC, 1998

–“Chicago, Where to Eat Now,” a play performed at the Source Theater, Washington, DC, 1997.

–“Greenland,” a play performed at the Source Theater, Washington, DC, 1994.

–“Calendar Ants,” a play performed at Source Theater Washington, DC, 1995 and at the Pegasus Theatre in Dallas, 1994.

--“Physics: General Developments,” an entry in the yearly Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encylopaedia Britannica, 1992, 1993.

–“Clever Hans,” a play performed by Love Creek Productions at the Nat Horne Theater, New York City, 1992.

–“Saltines,” a play performed at Artists in Cahoots in New York City, 1991.

--“Ziggurat,” a play performed at Steve McGraw's in New York City by Pen to Stage Productions, 1990.

–“Physics News in 1979,” booklet, published by the American Institute of Physics, and yearly thereafter up to 1996, editor and contributor

–Series of glossaries on physics topics: Particle Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Lasers, Cosmology, Medical Physics, Lasers, and Chaos, booklets published by the America Institute of Physics, mid 1980s.

–“Lasers,” an article in Physics Teacher magazine, November 1981.

–“Human Rights Kit: Suggestions for Activists in Support of Supressed Physicists,” item in Physics and Society, newsletter of APS Forum on Physics and Society, April 1981.

–“Current Physics Research,” two articles in Physics Teacher magazine, Sept and Oct 1980.

–“Multimuon Final States in Muon-Nucleon Scattering at 270 GeV,” article in Physical Review Letters, Vol 43, 1551, 19 November 1979 (with numerous co-authors).                                                                                          

–“Isabelle,” an article in Physics Teacher magazine, October 1979.

--“Measurement of Nucleon Structure Function in Muon Scattering at High q^2,” article in Physical Review Letters, Vol 42, 866, 2 April 1979 (with numerous co-authors).

–“Deep Inelastic Muon Scattering at 270 GeV,” PhD thesis in physics, Michigan State University, July 1978.

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