Michael Riordan (physicist)
{{Short description|American physicist and science writer}}
Michael Riordan (born 3 December 1946) is an American physicist, science historian and author.
Riordan earned his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. He worked at the University of Rochester, then moved to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and concurrently held an adjunct professorship at the University of California, Santa Cruz.{{cite news |title=Michael Riordan |url=http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/faculty/riordan.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |publisher=University of California, Santa Cruz}} While associated with SLAC, Riordan was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999.{{cite news |title=APS fellow archive |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=R&year=&unit_id=&institution= |access-date=10 May 2022 |publisher=American Physical Society}}{{cite news |title=Michael Riordan |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/michael-riordan/ |access-date=10 May 2022 |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}} The American Institute of Physics honored Riordan with the 2002 Andrew Gemant Award.{{cite news |last1=Stephens |first1=Tim |title=UC Santa Cruz scientist honored for communicating physics |url=https://news.ucsc.edu/2002/04/114.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |publisher=University of California, Santa Cruz |date=30 April 2002}}{{cite journal |title=AIP Gemant Award Goes to Riordan |journal=Physics Today |date=2002 |volume=55 |issue=7 |pages=71–72 |doi=10.1063/1.2409340|bibcode=2002PhT....55R..71. }}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |last1=Riordan |first1=Michael |last2=Hoddeson |first2=Lillian |last3=Kolb |first3=Adrienne |author3-link=Adrienne Kolb |title=Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider |date=2015 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-29479-7}}Reviews of Tunnel Visions include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Weart |first1=Spencer |title=Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider |journal=American Journal of Physics |date=2016 |volume=84 |issue=4 |page=318 |doi=10.1119/1.4941930|bibcode=2016AmJPh..84..318W }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Dylla |first1=H. Frederick |title=Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider |journal=Physics Today |date=2016 |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=52–53 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.3109|doi-access=free |bibcode=2016PhT....69c..52D }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Pisano |first1=Raffaele |title=Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider - by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson and Adrienne W. Kolb |journal=Centaurus |date=November 2015 |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=271–273 |doi=10.1111/1600-0498.12107}}
- {{cite journal |author1-link=Catherine Westfall |last1=Westfall |first1=Catherine |title=Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb (review) |journal=Technology and Culture |date=October 2016 |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=1036–1037 |doi=10.1353/tech.2016.0138}}
- {{cite book |last1=Riordan |first1=Michael |author2-link=Lillian Hoddeson |last2=Hoddeson |first2=Lillian |title=Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age |date=1997 |publisher=W. W. Norton Company |isbn=978-0-393-31851-7}}
- {{cite book | last1=Hoddeson | first1=Lillian | last2=Brown | first2=Laurie | last3=Riordan | first3=Michael | last4=Dresden | first4=Max | title=The Rise of the Standard Model | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=1997-11-13 |isbn=0-521-57082-4}}
- {{cite book |last1=Riordan |first1=Michael |author2-link=David Schramm (astrophysicist) |last2=Schramm |first2=David N. |title=The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe |date=1991 |publisher=W. H. Freeman & Company |isbn=978-0-7167-2157-4}}{{cite journal |last1=Rowan-Robinson |first1=Michael |title=In the Beginning -- The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe by Michael Riordan and David N. Schramm |journal=Nature |date=22 August 1991 |volume=352 |issue=6337 |page=677 |doi=10.1038/352677a0 |id={{ProQuest|204439175}}}}
- {{cite book |last1=Riordan |first1=Michael |title=The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics |date=1987 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-64884-8}}Reviews of The Hunting of the Quark include:
- {{cite journal |title=The Hunting of the Quark, Michael Riordan. 1987. Simon and Schuster, New York. 399 pages. Index. {{text|ISBN}}: 0-671-50466-5. $21.95 |journal=Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society |date=1 August 1988 |volume=7 |issue=4 |page=451 |doi=10.1177/0270467688008004120}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Firestone |first1=Alexander |title=The Hunting of the Quark: A Trued Story of Modern Physics |journal=Physics Today |date=1988 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=90–91 |doi=10.1063/1.2811393|bibcode=1988PhT....41d..90R }} Revised and updated electronic edition published in 2018 by Plunkett Lake Press.
- {{cite book | last1=Anderson | first1=Bruce | last2=Riordan | first2=Michael | last3=Wong | first3=Edward A. | last4=Dutton | first4=Rachel | title=The solar home book : heating, cooling, and designing with the sun | publisher=Cheshire Books | publication-place=Harrisville, N.H. | date=1976 |isbn=0-917352-01-7 | oclc=2684642}}
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External links
= Archival collections =
- [https://libserv.aip.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1681S6XN09755.327512&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=rev-all&ri=2&source=%7E%21horizon&index=.GW&term=MICHAEL+RIORDAN%27S&x=0&y=0&aspect=power Michael Riordan's research materials for CRYSTAL FIRE, 1900-2009, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
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