Editing Fred Singer (section)

==Early life and education==
Singer was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. His father was a jeweler and his mother a homemaker. Following the [[Anschluss]] between [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Federal State of Austria|Austria]] in 1938, the family fled Austria, and Singer departed on a children's transport train with other Jewish children. He ended up in England, where he lived in [[Northumberland]], working for a time as a teenage optician. Several years later he emigrated to Ohio and became an American citizen in 1944.<ref name = "scheuering2004" /><ref>Stevens, William Kenneth. ''The Change in the Weather''. Delta 2001, p. 245. Some of the details given by Scheuering and Stevens of Singer's flight from Vienna and the timing of it appear inconsistent. In fact Scheuering does not even mention such a flight: Scheuering does not even say that the family was Jewish. According to Scheuering the family was already in England in 1938.</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Electrical Engineering]] (B.E.E.) from [[Ohio State University]] in 1943. He taught physics at Princeton while he worked on his masters and his doctorate, obtaining his Ph.D. there in 1948.<ref name="Schwartz_2020"/> His doctoral thesis was titled, "''The density spectrum and latitude dependence of extensive cosmic ray air showers''."<ref>{{cite journal | author=Singer, S. Fred | year=1949 | title=The density spectrum and latitude dependence of extensive cosmic ray air showers | publisher=[[Princeton University]] |journal=American Doctoral Dissertations| oclc=77665144 | bibcode=1949PhDT........17S }}</ref> His supervisor was [[John Archibald Wheeler]], and his thesis committee included [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] and [[Niels Bohr]].<ref>[http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/bios/singer/cvsfs.html S. Fred Singer, Ph.D.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928135220/http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/bios/singer/cvsfs.html |date=September 28, 2006 }}, Science & Environmental Policy Project, accessed May 13, 2010; Smithsonian Institution Research Information Service. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!228966!0&term= "S. Fred Singer Papers, 1953–1989 (bulk 1960–1980)"], accessed May 15, 2010.
* For material about his supervisor and thesis committee, see Misner, Charles W. [http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum/bitstream/1903/7871/2/UMphys_MisnerOnWheeler.pdf "John Archibald Wheeler and the recertification of General Relativity as True Physics"]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, University of Maryland, October 3, 2006, accessed July 27, 2013.
* Also see Singer, S. Fred. [http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/4484126.html "The Father of the H-Bomb Tells His Story"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118014423/http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/4484126.html |date=January 18, 2009 }}, ''Hoover Digest'', 2002, No. 1, accessed May 15, 2010.
* For his teaching while he obtained his degrees, and the title of his PhD thesis, see [https://books.google.com/books?id=vngGt6mA30AC&pg=PA116 Scheuering 2004, pp. 116–117].</ref>