Govert Schilling
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Govert Schilling (born 30 November 1956) is a Dutch popular science writer and amateur astronomer.
Career[]
Schilling was born in Meerkerk. In 1982, he became the program leader at the former Zeiss Planetarium, Amsterdam.
From 1987 to 1998 he was also a part-time appointee as a program leader at the Artis Planetarium in Amsterdam.
He has extensively written for the Sky & Telescope magazine[1] and Science.[2]
Honours[]
The asteroid 10986 Govert is named after him.[3]
Bibliography[]
He is the author of a number of bestselling books.[4]
He has frequently collaborated with Lars Lindberg Christensen.
- Europe to the Stars: ESO's first 50 years of exploring the southern sky
- Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries
- Evolving Cosmos
- Eyes on the Skies: 400 Years of Telescopic Discovery
- The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto
- Flash!: The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe
- Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and the Future of Astronomy
References[]
- ^ http://io9.com/5863377/the-worlds-oldest-known-heliocentric-model-is-completely-backwards
- ^ Schilling, Govert (June 2001). "Deep-Space 'Filament' Shows Cosmic Fabric". Science – via HighBeam Research (subscription required). Archived from the original on 10 June 2014.
- ^ Radio Netherlands' science producer Anne Blair Gould conducted a wide-ranging interview with Govert Schilling in 2005
- ^ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/463473.Govert_Schilling
External links[]
- http://allesoversterrenkunde.nl/#!/english/govert-schilling/
- https://twitter.com/govertschilling
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/govertschilling
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