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Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
OccupationAuthor and health economist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationMount Holyoke College, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
GenreBiography
SubjectHistory of physics
Notable worksThe End of the Certain World, Atomic Spy
SpouseStanley Greenspan
Website
www.maxborn.net

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan is an American author specializing in biographies.[1] She is known for writing the biography of notable physicist Max Born, The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution.[2]

She also authored several books in child psychiatry and psychology with her husband, Stanley I. Greenspan. These include The Clinical Interview of the Child, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1981, 3rd edition, American Psychiatric Press (Washington, DC), 2003, First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child, Viking (New York, NY), 1985, and The Essential Partnership: How Parents and Children Can Meet the Emotional Challenges of Infancy and Childhood, Viking (New York, NY), 1989.

She is also known for writing the biography of WWII spy Klaus Fuchs, a German physicist and Nazi resister who was a WWII spy. The biography, Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Viking, May 12, 2020) is a non-fictional account of how the spy risked extreme torture and death by the Gestapo to fight the Nazis in 1932–33 and handing the plans for the plutonium bomb to the Russians in 1945, which ultimately resulted in the Cold War between 1947 and 1991.[3][4][5]

She has served on the board of numerous environmental organizations and is a board member of the American Institute of Physics Foundation.[6]

Reception

In his 2005 review of Greenspan's book The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution, David C. Cassidy (Biography, fall, 2005, David C. Cassidy, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 372) wrote "It is a powerful story" and it "is well told".

The book's review in Publishers Weekly wrote "This empathetic work, Greenspan's first solo effort, lifts a deserving figure out of semi-obscurity and adds a valuable perspective on the origin of modern physics."

The book's review in Science News said the "book will appeal to anyone interested in the golden age of physics, as Born was one of its most influential figures."

Biographical and critical sources:

Psychiatry & psychology with Stanley I. Greenspan

References

  1. ^ "An Interview with Nancy Thorndike Greenspan | Washington Independent Review of Books". www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  3. ^ Radosh, Ronald (May 12, 2020). "The Spy Who Handed America's Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  4. ^ Hemming, Henry (May 1, 2020). "'Atomic Spy' Review: The Soviets' Secret Weapon". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  5. ^ "a book review by Francis P. Sempa: Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  6. ^ on, Miyako Yerick. "Atomic Spy". Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

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