Art Hobson has written five previous books:• Concepts in Statistical Mechanics, a research monograph (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers 1971, Chemical Rubber Company 1987);• Physics and Human Affairs, a non-mathematical textbook for non-science college students (John Wiley & Sons 1982);• The Future of Land-Based Strategic Missiles, (American Institute of Physics 1989); co-editor and co-author with 9 other authors;• Physics: Concepts & Connections, (Pearson/Addison-Wesley 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010), another textbook for non-science college students;• Tales of the Quantum (Oxford University Press 2017), a non-mathematical overview of quantum physics.He has written numerous technical and pedagogical physics papers, including the following pre-cursors to Fields and their Quanta:• "There are no particles, there are only fields, "American Journal of Physics 81, 211-223 (2013);• "A realist analysis of six controversial quantum issues," in Mario Bunge Festschrift (Springer 2019), pp. 329-348;• "Entanglement and the measurement problem," Quantum Engineering 2022, ID 5889159 (2022).Hobson was born in Philadelphia in 1934 and moved to Manhattan, Kansas in 1945. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1955. After 2 years in the Army in Germany, he spent six months in New York City trying but failing to be a professional jazz musician. He then switched to physics and enrolled at Kansas State University in 1958, graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1960, and received a physics PhD in 1964. He then joined the University of Arkansas faculty where he taught and did research until retiring in 1999. He has authored over 175 professional articles, mostly theoretical physics and physics education. He received the American Association of Physics Teachers' 2006 "Millikan Award for Teaching Excellence" for bringing scientific literacy to all college students, and received a "Master Teacher" award from his university. Since "retiring" in 1999, Hobson has had time to study his favorite topic, quantum foundations. He maintains an office in the physics department and commutes to work on his bicycle.
