Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) is a Chancellor Professor of Physics at theCollege of William and Mary. Hisbooks includeInformation: The New Language of Science,Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat, andQBism: The Future of Quantum Physics.

He received the Science Journalism Award of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and theNational Magazine Award in the category "Essays and Criticism,"^[1] which cites his "uncommon literary grace".^[2][3] In addition, he also won the 2005Andrew Gemant Award for science writing, for prose "crisp, captivating and illuminating" with "depth, passion and clarity" in the ideas conveyed.^[4]

Von Baeyer was born inGermany and left the country duringWorld War II.^[5] He graduated fromColumbia College in 1958 and received his M.S. from theUniversity of Miami and Ph.D. fromVanderbilt University.^[6] He is a descendant of German geologist and military officerJohann Jacob Baeyer, whose son,Adolf von Baeyer, won the 1905Nobel Prize in Chemistry.^[7]

In 1976, von Baeyer was selected as aFellow of the American Physical Society.^[8]

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• Baeyer, Hans Christian von (1984).Rainbows, Snowflakes, and Quarks: Physics and the World Around Us. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• — (1993).The Fermi solution: Essays on Science. New York: Random House.ISBN 0-679-40031-1.
• — (1994).Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld (Penguin Science). London, England: Penguin Books Ltd.ISBN 0-14-015621-6.
• — (July 1995)."Black holes, ants, & roller coasters".Discover.16 (7):54–61.
• — (1999).Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat. New York: The Modern Library.ISBN 0-375-75372-9.OCLC 633751312.
  • First published as:Baeyer, Hans Christian von (1998).Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes. Random House.ISBN 9780679433422.OCLC 37695758.
• — (2004).Information: The New Language of Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.ISBN 0-674-01387-5.
• — (2016).QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.ISBN 9780674545342.OCLC 984642826.

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