Youth, Middle-Age, and You-Look-Great - Dying to Come Back as A Memoir (Paperback)

YOUTH, MIDDLE-AGE, and YOU-LOOK-GREAT Dying To Come Back As A Memoir With reckless ravenous scientific curiosity. Stephen Rosen disassembled a clock and swallowed a part at age two. At age four, impulsively chasing a cat up a tree, he impaled himself upon a steel-spike picket fence. As a teenager, he fell in love with Relativity. At age twenty-one, he saved three lives including his own. In his mid-twenties he became an assistant professor of physics and a father. In his thirties, he was visiting scientist at Institut d? Astrophysique de Paris/Centre d?Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay doing research on cosmic radiation; was tear-gassed on May Day soixante-huit; divorced; philandered his way through the sexual revolution; served at a prominent think-tank doing top-secret strategy for the defense department; and wrote a best-selling book, ?Future Facts?(1976). At fifty-one, he married a beautiful and brilliant woman (Celia Paul, the sunshine of his life) who helped transform him into a mensch and a ?hero? (Talmudic definition). He created the Scientific Career Transitions Program in 1990, and taught hundreds of PhD and double-PhD Soviet Jewish emigre refusnik-scientists how to find jobs in the U.S. utilizing their exceptional Russian credentials. He became ?a person of interest? to the FBI, the CIA, and the KGB. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, he and Celia Paul wrote the 1997 book ?Career Renewal? for American scientists. In the later best years of his life he built a tree-house, became a sculptor and photographer, wrote articles, books, and original songs for family and friends, and observed and helped his children and grand-children become adults. He survived near-death twice--from a stroke and subsequent loss of half his blood, and wrote his obituary even though he has a genetic marker for longevity. He exercises and swims regularly, and in the gym's locker room decided a sign on the swimsuit spin-dryer referred to his well-lived life: ?This unit is self-timed and will shut down at the end of its cycle. It will not reset?.