Background
Tony is the son of physicist and science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman.
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Tony is the son of physicist and science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman.
Rothman has a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College, (1975) and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin (1981), where he studied at the Center for Relativity.
He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the University of Moscow and the University of Cape Town. Rothman worked briefly as an editor at Scientific American, then taught at Harvard, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College and more recently at Princeton University. As of January 2016 he has joined the faculty of New York University Polytech, also known as the Tandon School of Engineering.
Rothman"s scientific research has been concerned mainly with general relativity and cosmology, for which he has made contributions to the study of the early universe, specifically cosmic nucleosynthesis, black holes, inflationary cosmology and gravitons.
Rothman was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov"s Memoirs and he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American, Discover, American Scientist, The New Republic and History Today. He has played oboe at a professional level and commissioned a concerto from Alexander Raskatov.