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One evening in 1781, a professional musician and amateur astronomer named William Herschel went into the garden of his home in Bath, pointed his home-made telescope at the heavens and discovered the planet Uranus. Yet even though the discovery made him famous almost overnight, earning him the respect of the world's greatest astronomers and a lifetime pension from George III, it was the least of his scientific accomplishments. Working with his sister Caroline as an assistant, Herschel set out to identify every object in the heavens, measure the distances to the stars, determine the shape of the Milky Way and understand the history and evolution of the universe. And in doing so, he more or less invented modern astronomy, nearly single-handed.
Michael D. Lemonick spent more than 20 years as a writer for Time magazine, writing more than 50 cover stories on science and medicine, and has contributed to Scientific American, New Scientist, Discover, National Geographic and People magazines. He has also written four books on astronomy; his latest, "The Georgian Star," a biography of the 18th-century astronomer William Herschel. Lemonick teaches journalism at Princeton University, and has taught as well
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Michael Lemonick
Michael D. Lemonick (LEM-ə-nik,[1] born 13 October 1953) is an opinion editor at Scientific American, a former senior staff writer at Climate Central[2] and a former senior science writer at Time.[3]
He has also written for Discover,[4]Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, and other publications, and has written several popular-science books.
Life
[edit]The son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator Aaron Lemonick[5] and a native of Princeton, New Jersey, Lemonick graduated from Princeton High School,[6] then earned degrees at Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He teaches communications and journalism at Princeton University[7] and resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at Princeton Day School.
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[edit]- The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Leading Cosmologists on the Brink of a Scientific Revolution (May 11, 1993)
- Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe (May 14, 1998)
- Echo of the Big Bang (2003); 2nd edition (Apr 24, 2005)
- The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutioniz