Barry Arthur Cipra, an American mathematician and freelance writer, regularly contributes to Science magazine and SIAM News, a monthly publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
[1] Cipra got his Ph.D. from University of Maryland College Park in 1980.
He was an instructor at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Ohio State University.
He was an assistant professor of mathematics at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Cipra received the 1991 Merten M. Hasse Prize from the Mathematical Association of America for his work on the Ising model.