Petr Beckmann (1924-1993) was a physicist who defected to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1963 and became a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. He became well-known as an advocate of libertarianism as well as nuclear power. Beckmann was a prolific scientific author; he wrote several electrical engineering textbooks and non-technical works. By 1968 he had founded "Golem Press", which published most of his books, … Wikipedia
Jump to: navigation , search Petr Beckmann was born in 1924 in Prague (then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Petr_Beckmann
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I wrote about one of these dissidents, Peter Beckmann, over five years ago ( TAS , August 1993, and Correspondence, TAS , October 1993). www.gravitywarpdrive.com/Rethinking_Relativity.htm
Petr Beckmann was born in Prague in 1924. Because his father was a politically active Communist lawyer, his family moved to England in 1939. Petr always looked back with great affection to his high-school years, spent near Birmingham, his schooling some www.thefreelibrary.com/Petr+Beckmann,+R+I+P.-a014667446
