Howard Alan Smith
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Howard Alan Smith, PhD., is a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is the former chair of the astronomy department at Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. A well-known research scientist with several hundred scholarly publications, he served as a visiting astronomer at NASA headquarters.
Active in public education, he has been recognized by Harvard for excellence in teaching. He is a traditional, observant Jew, and has lectured on cosmology and Kabbalah for over twenty years.
He is the author of the book "Let there be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah, A New Conversation Between Science and Religion" (New World Library: 2006, ISBN 1577315480).
