Bernstein, Jeremy (1929– )

US science writer. A mathematical physicist, he has written many articles and books on various topics of pure and applied science for the nonspecialist reader. He has also sought to give a mathematical analysis and description of the behaviour of elementary particles.

Bernstein was born in Rochester, New York, and educated at Harvard. He held academic posts there and at New York University before becoming professor of physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1967.

In 1962 Bernstein joined the staff of the magazine the New Yorker. His lengthy articles for that magazine include ‘The analytical engine: computers, past, present and future’. He published a general survey of the historical progress of scientific knowledge, Ascent (1965) and a biography of Albert Einstein (1973).