Re: List of scientists who write SF
- From: Pekka P. Pirinen <ppp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:09:05 +0000
On 28 Feb 2006 21:45:28 -0800, fred.galvin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Jeffs wrote:
scientist only if you've gotten your Ph.D. or equivalent in the
physical, biological, or mathematical sciences, and/or publish in these
fields in recognized journals, or do audited research in these fields.
("Audited" in this case means the work could be refereed, e.g. by
publication, or by the Stine test: it works or it doesn't work).
So, off the top of my head we have: Asimov, Benford, Brin, Clarke,
Pournelle (I think...can't recall his CV precisely),
Pournelle has PhDs in psychology and political science. So he
doesn't count according to your criteria. (His undergrad degree
was in engineering, though.)
Arthur C. Clarke does not have a PhD -- unless you count several
honorary ones -- but does have published research (geosynch
comsats and all that).
(The OP can do his own googling; I don't have URLs to hand on any
of this.)
"John Taine", and a few others.
Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., chemist.
From the ranks of famous scientists, Fred Hoyle (astronomy, _The
Black Cloud_, _A for Andromeda_, e.a.) and Johannes Kepler
(astronomy, _Somnium_) should be remembered. Robert L. Forward
(physics, _Dragon's Egg_ e.a.) was also a first-class scientist,
but maybe not so well-known outside scientific and sf circles.
Other scientists well-known in sf circles are Charles Sheffield
(physics, the McAndrew chronicles), Rudy Rucker (mathematics,
_White Light_, e.a.), Vernor Vinge (CS, "True Names"), and our
own Geoffrey Landis (do I need to tell you?). Stanley Schmidt
has a PhD in physics (_Newton and the Quasi-apple_).
Hilbert Schenck was a professor of engineering and Donald
Kingsbury was a mathematician, but I don't recall any of their
work using their own fields.
Less well-known names that I happen to remember: Tony Rothman
(cosmology, _World is Round_), Philip Latham, Paul Davies. And
there must be hundreds of others.
Looking at the anthologies mentioned in this thread will give
more leads, and also check out _Mathenauts_ (ed. Rudy Rucker) and
_Fantasia Mathematica_ and _The Mathematical Magpie_ (both ed.
Clifton Fadiman) -- there are bound to be some mathematicians in
them.
--
Pekka P. Pirinen
Only fools learn by their experience; smart people use the
experience of others. - Bismarck
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