Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

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]

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
OccupationAuthor and health economist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityUnited States
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

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 1947-91.[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 & Critical Sources:[2]
  • American Baby, September, 1985, Stanley Greenspan, review of First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child, p. 72.
  • American Scientist, July 1, 2005, David C. Cassidy, "Born unto Trouble," review of The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution, p. 372.
  • Biography, fall, 2005, David C. Cassidy, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 372.
  • Bookwatch, July, 2005, "Basic Books," review of The End of the Certain World.
  • Choice, October, 2005, D. Park, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 312.
  • Discover, August, 2005, Richard Panek, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 76.
  • Healthline, November, 1989, Bettina Wood, review of The Essential Partnership: How Parents and Children Can Meet the Emotional Challenges of Infancy and Childhood, p. 16.
  • Isis, September, 2006, Richard H. Beyler, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 569.
  • Journal of College Science Teaching, September, 2005, Cary Seidman, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 75.
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, January, 2005, Sharon M. Hasbani, review of The Clinical Interview of the Child, p. 102.
  • Library Journal, April 15, 1985, Janice Arenofsky, review of First Feelings, p. 77.
  • Nature, June 9, 2005, Kurt Gottfried, "Born to Greatness?," review of The End of the Certain World, p. 739.
  • Physics Today, January, 2006, Joan Lisa Bromberg, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 60.
  • Psychology Today, April, 1985, Colleen Cordes, review of First Feelings, p. 73.
  • Publishers Weekly, February 15, 1985, review of First Feelings, p. 91; January 20, 1989, Genevieve Stuttaford, review of The Essential Partnership, p. 135; February 7, 2005, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 54.
  • Science Books & Films, July-August, 2005, Barry R. Masters, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 158; November-December, 2005, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 240.
  • Science News, March 19, 2005, review of The End of the Certain World, p. 191.
  • Times Higher Education Supplement, April 29, 2005, Graham Farmelo, "The Trouble with Being Quietly Born," review of The End of the Certain World, p. 22.

Psychiatry & psychology with Stanley I. Greenspan
  • 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.
  • The Essential Partnership: How Parents and Children Can Meet the Emotional Challenges of Infancy and Childhood, Viking (New York, NY), 1989.

References
  1. "An Interview with Nancy Thorndike Greenspan | Washington Independent Review of Books". www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  2. "Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  3. Radosh, Ronald (2020-05-12). "The Spy Who Handed America's Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  4. Hemming, Henry (2020-05-01). "'Atomic Spy' Review: The Soviets' Secret Weapon". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  5. "a book review by Francis P. Sempa: Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  6. on, Miyako Yerick. "Atomic Spy". Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2021-01-01.


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