Michael Lemonick ( , born 13 October 1953) is an opinion editor at ''

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'', a former senior staff writer at

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and a former senior

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at ''

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''. He has also written for ''

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'', Yale Environment 360, ''

'', and others, and has written a number of popular-level books on science and

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, including ''The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos'', ''Echo of the Big Bang'', ''Other Worlds: The Search For Life in the Universe'', and ''Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin''. Son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator

Aaron Lemonick Aaron Lemonick (February 2, 1923 – June 19, 2003) was a Princeton University physics professor and administrator who served as dean of the graduate school from 1969 to 1973, and as dean of the faculty from 1973 to 1989. Joseph Taylor, winner o ...

and native of

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, Lemonick graduated from

Princeton High School Princeton High School may refer to: * Princeton High School (Illinois), Princeton, Illinois * Princeton Community High School, Princeton, Indiana * Princeton High School (Minnesota), Princeton, Minnesota * Princeton Junior-Senior High School, Princ ...

, and then earned degrees at

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and the

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism s ...

. He teaches communications and journalism at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

. He currently resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at

Princeton Day School Princeton Day School is a private coeducational day school located in Princeton, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The largest division is the Upper School (grades 9–12) ...

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)

(Feb 7, 2017)

Essays and reporting

*''Discover'' often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "Sending Robotic Repairmen to Space" online.

References

External links

Interview on the Marketing for Scientists blog
* * (public lecture by Michael Lemonick, 27 February 2009)
About Michael Lemonick
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lemonick, Michael 1953 births Living people Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Discover (magazine) people Harvard University alumni People from Princeton, New Jersey Princeton High School (New Jersey) alumni Princeton University faculty Scientific American people