Martin Harwit
Martin Harwit (born March 9, 1931 in Prague) is a Czech-American astronomer, author, and was director of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1995. His scientific work on Infrared astronomy as a professor at Cornell University is notable.[1]
In 1994 he became embroiled in public debate when his work on the Enola Gay exhibit, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , was accused of being "revisionist history" for including Japanese accounts of the attack and photographs of the victims,[2] and for presenting an exhibit script that critics alleged "depicted the Japanese as victims of a United States motivated by vengeance."[3] The controversy led to his being forced to resign from the directorship of the National Air and Space Museum.[4]
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Honors [edit]
Awards
- Bruce Medal (2007)
Named after him
Works [edit]
- Astrophysical Concepts (1. Auflage 1973, 4. Auflage 2006) ISBN 978-0-387-32943-7
- Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy (1981) ISBN 978-0-7108-0089-3
- An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay (1996) ISBN 978-0-387-94797-6
References [edit]
- ^ Mather, John C.; Boslough, John (1996, 2008). The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Basic Books. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-465-00529-1.
- ^ Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution by Bernard Carl Rosen
- ^ "Chronology of the Controversy". Enola Gay Archive. Air Force Magazine.com. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ TELEVISION VIEW; Fifty Years Later, Still the Day After: Article The New York Times; Published: July 30, 1995
External links [edit]
- Cornell Page
- Oral History interview transcript with Martin Marwit 19 April 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
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