Press release biography of albert bartlett

He also helped design multiple buildings on campus including the Duane Physical Laboratories Complex. He was preceded in death by his wife, Eleanor, and is survived by daughters Carol, Jane, Lois and Nancy. Understanding the mathematical consequences of population growth and energy consumption can help clarify the best course for humanity to follow, he said.

Listen to the audio or read the transcript here — Dr. Albert Bartlett: arithmetic, population and energy. He has authored hundreds of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature and The Wall Street Journal ; delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences on six continents; and has been quoted and interviewed countless times for print, television, and radio.

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Toggle the table of contents. Bartlett's papers have been published by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in the book, " The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet. In the late s Professor Bartlett was an initiator of a citizens' effort to preserve open space in Boulder, Colorado, which ultimately led to the formation of The City of Boulder's Open Space Program.

Bythe Program has purchased over 26, acres of land for preservation as public open space. Professor Bartlett was also an initiator of the "Blue Line" amendment that kept houses from being built info Boulder's foothills by restricting city water supply to a maximum elevation. Few people have contributed as much over the years to physics education as Professor Albert Bartlett.

Teachers have regularly used snippets from his "et cetera In this article, Professor Bartlett carefully analyzes the Transportation Department estimate that a single 40,kg truck does as much damage to an interstate highway as 9, cars in order to illustrate how "real world" physics problems can be incorporated into our physics teaching.

The paper "Graphical representations of Fraunhofer interference and diffraction", by Bartlett and Bruce Mechtly, American Journal of Physics 62,is also highly recommended. See the interviews section for various interviews of Al Bartlett, including the comprehensive Fall, interview of Al Bartlett by Paul Nachman.