SMITHSONIAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY

David H. DeVorkin
Senior Curator, History of Astronomy and the Space Sciences

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.