Paul Halpern

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In 2002, Halpern received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also received a Fulbright Scholarship and an Athenaeum Society Literary Award.

He has written many popular science books and articles, including the books The Cyclical Serpent, Cosmic Wormholes and The Great Beyond. He has also appeared on the 1994 PBS series Futurequest, as well as the National Public Radio show "Radio Times."

In 2007, he published a book based on The Simpsons titled What's Science Ever Done for Us. He later appeared in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!.

Halpern published Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat in 2015, The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality in 2017, Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect in 2020, and Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate in 2021.

In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. (Search on year="2017" & nominating_unit="FHPP".)

• Time Journeys: A search for Cosmic Destiny and Meaning, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1990,
• Cosmic Wormholes: The Search for Interstellar Shortcuts, Plume, 1993.
• The Cyclical Serpent: Prospects for an Ever-Repeating Universe, 1995;
  (2013). 9781489960368, Springer. . ISBN 9781489960368
• (2014). 9781466881686, Henry Holt and Company. . ISBN 9781466881686
• The Pursuit of Destiny: A History of Prediction, Perseus Pub., 2000,
• Countdown to Apocalypse: A Scientific Exploration of the End of the World, Basic Books, 2000,
• (1998). 9780306459863, Plenum Trade. ISBN 9780306459863
• (2003). 9780738208909, Perseus Books Group. . ISBN 9780738208909
• Faraway Worlds: Planets Beyond Our Solar System, 2004, 32 pages; children's book, illustrated by Lynette Cook
• (2004). 9780471656586, John Wiley & Sons. . ISBN 9780471656586
• Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos, coauthor Paul S. Wesson, 2006,
• (2025). 9780470114605, Wiley. . ISBN 9780470114605
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• (2009). 9780470286203, John Wiley & Sons. . ISBN 9780470286203
• (2012). 9781118220825, John Wiley & Sons. . ISBN 9781118220825
• (2015). 9780465040650, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465040650
• (2017). 9780465097593, Basic Books. . ISBN 9780465097593
• (2020). 9781541673649, Basic Books. . ISBN 9781541673649
• (2021). 9781541673618, Basic Books. . ISBN 9781541673618
• The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. Basic Books. 16 January 2024. ISBN 978–1541602175

• Paul Halpern, Saint Joseph's University
• Paul Halpern Biography
• Paul Halpern: Science Books and Articles, National Association of Science Writers
• Books by Paul Halpern, National Association of Science Writers
• Paul Halpern Interview