Nikolai Eberhardt

Nikolai Eberhardt was a German émigré physicist and author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament (1998).

Biography
Born 1930 in Estonia, Eberhardt has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in Graz, Austria and physics in Munich, gaining a Physics Diploma in 1957, and a Doctor of Science degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1962 from the Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University (Emeritus from 1995). Intermittently he also served as Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation. He was Digest Editor of the 1976 IEEE International Microwave Symposium.