Editing Frederick Seitz (section)

==Publishing==
Seitz wrote a range of scientific books in his field, including ''The Modern Theory of Solids'' (1940) and ''The Physics of Metals'' (1943). Later he co-authored books such as the ''Theory of Lattice Dynamics in the Harmonic Approximation'' (1971) and ''Solid State Physics''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Solid State Physics: Advances in Research and Applications |volume=1|date=1955|publisher=Academic Press|author1=Frederick Seitz |author2=David Turnbull|isbn=978-0-08-086465-5|location=New York|oclc=646775088}}</ref> The latter, begun in 1955, with [[David Turnbull (materials scientist)|David Turnbull]], reached 60 volumes by 2008, with Seitz remaining an active editor until volume 38 in 1984.<ref name=PhysicsToday /> ''Solid State Physics'' continues to be published by Elsevier.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Book Series: Solid State Physics|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/book-series/solid-state-physics|access-date=2021-02-12|website=www.elsevier.com}}</ref> After his retirement he co-authored a book on [[global warming]], published via the [[George C. Marshall Institute]] he chaired. He published his autobiography in 1994. Other works included biographies of American physicist [[Francis Wheeler Loomis]] (1991) and Canadian inventor [[Reginald Fessenden]] (1999), a history of [[silicon]], and a history of the US National Academy of Sciences (2007).