Michael_D._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 Central[2] and a former senior science writer at Time.[3]
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| Born | (1953-10-13) 13 October 1953 (age 70) |
| Education | Princeton High School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| Employer | Scientific American |
| Spouse | Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick |
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He has also written for Discover,[4] Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, and other publications, and has written several popular-science books.
The son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator Aaron Lemonick[5] 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 University[7] and resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at Princeton Day School.
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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.[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.
- "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.
- "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."
- Discover often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "Sending Robotic Repairmen to Space" online.
- 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