(1919-2001) US nuclear physicist and long-time sf fan who was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 1998. He was the father of Tony Rothman. Besides books of popular science, Rothman wrote a small number of sf stories both under his own name and as by Lee Gregor. Two of the Gregor stories are collaborations with Frederik Pohl: one of these, "Heavy Planet" (August 1939 Astounding), became the title piece of Rothman's posthumous collection Heavy Planet and Other Science Fiction Stories (coll 2004 pod). Under his own name he also contributed science essays to Asimov's Science Fiction. [JC/DRL]
see also: Jupiter; Power Sources.
Milton A Rothman
born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1919
died Wyncote, Pennsylvania: 6 October 2001
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