Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan is an American author specializing in biographies. She is known for writing the biography of notable physicist Max Born'','' ''The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution.''

She also authored several books in child psychiatry and psychology with her husband, Stanley I. Greenspan. These include ''The Clinical Interview of the Child,'' McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1981, 3rd edition, American Psychiatric Press (Washington, DC), 2003, ''First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child,'' Viking (New York, NY), 1985, and ''The Essential Partnership: How Parents and Children Can Meet the Emotional Challenges of Infancy and Childhood,'' Viking (New York, NY), 1989.

She is also known for writing the biography of WWII spy Klaus Fuchs, a German physicist and Nazi resister who was a WWII spy. The biography, ''Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Viking, May 12, 2020)'' is a non-fictional account of how the spy risked extreme torture and death by the Gestapo to fight the Nazis in 1932–33 and handing the plans for the plutonium bomb to the Russians in 1945, which ultimately resulted in the Cold War between 1947 and 1991.

She has served on the board of numerous environmental organizations and is a board member of the American Institute of Physics Foundation. Provided by Wikipedia