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National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
NASM 3559 MRC 311
Washington, DC
devorkind@si.edu
Education
B.A. (1966) University of California, Los Angeles; M.S. (1968) San Diego State University; M.Phil. (1970) Yale University; Ph.D. (1978) University of Leicester
Research
Interests
History of 20th century astronomy and astrophysics; origin and development of the space sciences.
Current
Research Projects
The Transformation of a Scientific Institution by the Cold War: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955 - 1970
Current
or Projected Exhibits
"Explore the Universe" - major permanent gallery opened in September 2001. Public Observatory opened at NASM, September 2009.
Current
Publications
(w/ Robert W. Smith and Elizabeth A. Kessler) The Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe, National Geographic Society, 2004. Revised and enlarged 2008
(ed)
Beyond Earth, National Geographic Society, 2002.
Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers. Princeton, 2000.
(ed.)
The American Astronomical Society's First Century. AIP, 1999.
Science with a Vengeance. Springer, 1993
Race to the Stratosphere. Springer, 1986.
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