Martin Harwit

Martin Harwit (born March 9, 1931 in Prague) is a Czech/American astronomer. He is known for work on Infrared astronomy. In 1994 he gained brief attention to the wider public when his work on the Enola Gay exhibit was accused of being "revisionist history" The controversy led to his resigning from the National Air and Space Museum where he had served as director from1987 to 1995.

Honors

Awards

• Bruce Medal (2007)

Named after him

• Asteroid 12143 Harwit

Works

• 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 978-0-710-80089-3
• An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay (1996) ISBN 978-0-387-94797-6

External links

• Cornell Page
• Oral History interview transcript with Martin Marwit 19 April 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives