Born:
Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, December l5, 1923.

Education:
University of Cambridge, 1941--43, B.A. 1945.

War service, Operations, Research, R.A.F. Bomber Command, 1943-1945.

Commonwealth Fellow, Cornell University and Institute for Advanced Study, 1947-1949.

Professor of physics at Cornell University,1951--1953.

Fellow of the Royal Society 1952.

Professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1953 - 1994. Professor Emeritus, 1994 to present.

Naturalized American Citizen, 1957.

Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1964.

Danny Heineman Prize, American Institute of Physics, 1965.

"Disturbing the Universe," book commissioned by the Science Book Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, published by Harper and Row, 1979.

"Weapons and Hope," published by Harper and Row, 1984.

National Books Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction, 1984.

"Origins of Life," published by Cambridge University Press, 1986, second edition 1999.

"Infinite in All Directions," 1985 Gifford lectures, published by Harper and Row, 1988.

18 Honorary Degrees

Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for "Infinite in All Directions," 1988.

Oersted Medal awarded by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 1991.

Enrico Fermi Award given by U.S. Department of Energy, 1995.

Lewis Thomas Prize, honoring the Scientist as Poet, awarded by Rockefeller University, 1996.

"Imagined Worlds," published by Harvard University Press, 1997.

"The Sun, the Genome and the Internet," published by Oxford University Press, 1999.

Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, 2000.