Michael Lemonick
Michael Lemonick (/ˈlɛmənɪk/ 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 others, and has written a number of popular-level books on science and astrophysics, including The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos,[5][6] Echo of the Big Bang,[7] Other Worlds: The Search For Life in the Universe,[8] and Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin.[9]
Son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator Aaron Lemonick[10] and native of Princeton, New Jersey, Lemonick graduated from Princeton High School,[11] and then earned degrees at Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches communications and journalism at Princeton University.[12] He currently resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at Princeton Day School.
Bibliography
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Books
- 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 Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos (Great Discoveries) (Dec 14, 2009)
- Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin (Oct 29, 2013); 2012 ebook
- The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Cosmology (Princeton Legacy Library) (July 14, 2014)
- The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love (Feb 7, 2017)
Essays and reporting
- Lemonick, Michael (Sep 2013). "Save our satellites". Big Idea. Discover. 34 (7): 22, 24.
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References
- ^ "Is It Time to Give Up on Dark Matter?". Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Bio Archived 2010-02-10 at the Wayback Machine climatecentral.org
- ^ Lemonick has written more than 50 cover stories on topics for Time magazine, including the topics of climate change, astronomy, addiction, and human origins.
- ^ The World's Hardest working Telescope
- ^ The Georgian Star
- ^ Kissack, Randy S. (2009). "Book Review: The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos, by Michael D. Lemonick". Meteoritics & Planetary Science Archives. 44 (5): 781–782.
- ^ Echo of the Big Bang,
- ^ Other Worlds: The Search For Life in the Universe
- ^ Mirror Earth
- ^ "PAW March 10, 2004: A moment with..." www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ Strauss, Elaine. "Michael Lemonick’s Search for Other Worlds", U.S. 1 newspaper, May 6, 1998. Accessed December 10, 2018. "Lemonick’s strong second interest has been music. He played trumpet while he was at Princeton High School."
- ^ Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences
- ^ Discover often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "Sending Robotic Repairmen to Space" online.
External links
- Interview on the Marketing for Scientists blog
- "Stories by Michael D. Lemonick". Scientific American (scientificamerican.com).
- "The Georgian Star: how William and Caroline Herschel revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos". YouTube. The Royal Society. 10 December 2013. (public lecture by Michael Lemonick, 27 February 2009)
