Master’s Tea hosted by Professor Harvey Goldblatt
About Michael D. Lemonick
Michael D. Lemonick has been a journalist and author for more than 25 years–20 of them at TIME Magazine, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories on topics ranging from climate change to genomics to particle physics before stepping down as a Senior Science Writer in early 2007. He has also written for Discover, Scientific American, National Geographic, Wired and other magazines, and has taught writing and reporting at Princeton, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and New York University. His latest book, to be published in November, 2008, is titled “The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos.” He has written three other books on astronomy; his second, Other Worlds, received the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. The New York Times Sunday Book Review called him one of “astronomy’s great popularizers.” He holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.