Michael D. Lemonick | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1953-10-13) 13 October 1953 |
| Education | Princeton High School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| Employer | Scientific American |
| Spouse | Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick |
| Father | Aaron Lemonick |
Michael D. Lemonick (/ˈlɛmənɪk/ LEM-ə-nik,1 born 13 October 1953) is an opinion editor at Scientific American, a former senior staff writer at Climate Central2 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
The son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator Aaron Lemonick5 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 University7 and resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at Princeton Day School.
Bibliography
Bibliography
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, 24.8
- Lemonick, Michael D., "Cosmic Nothing: Huge empty patches of the universe could help solve some of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos", Scientific American, vol. 330, no. 1 (January 2024), pp. 20–27.
References
References
- "Is It Time to Give Up on Dark Matter?". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. 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
- "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
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. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. (public lecture by Michael Lemonick, 27 February 2009)
- About Michael Lemonick