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TravelQuest Guest Lecturers |
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TravelQuest's guest lectures travel
with you on your South Pacific Total Solar Eclipse
Cruise. They will be presenting on-board programs
designed to inform and prepare you to maximize your
eclipse experience. TravelQuest's guest lecture
programs are only available to TravelQuest travelers.
Our Guest Lecturers will include the Editor-in-Chief for
Sky and Telescope Magazine, Richard Fienberg and
Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of
the History of Science at Harvard University.
Don't miss these outstanding lecturers only available on
the TravelQuest cruise. |
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Richard Tresch
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Rick Fienberg has spent nearly 22 in a variety
of editorial and management positions at Sky
& Telescope, the world’s premier astronomy
magazine, most recently as Editor in Chief.
Before joining S&T in 1986, Rick earned
his B.A. in physics at Rice University and his
M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard
University. He has done research on the aurora
borealis, planetary nebulas, active galaxies,
and the center of the Milky Way. His incisive
coverage of the Hubble Space Telescope for
S&T won a citation from the National Space
Club. He’s been elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and
the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
recently named asteroid 9983 Rickfienberg in his
honor. He serves on planning committees for the
International Year of Astronomy 2009 for both
the IAU and the American Astronomical Society.
Though trained as a professional astronomer,
Rick remains an amateur |
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at
heart, observing the sky and taking astrophotos from his
homebuilt hilltop observatory in southern New Hampshire.
During the 2008-09 academic year he’ll be Visiting
Scientist in Astronomy & Astrophysics at Phillips
Academy, the prestigious college-preparatory school in
Andover, Massachusetts. Eclipse ’09 will be Rick’s
eighth voyage to totality. |
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Owen Gingerich |
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Owen Gingerich is Professor Emeritus of
Astronomy and of the History of Science at
Harvard University and a senior astronomer
emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory. His research interests have ranged
from the recomputation of an ancient Babylonian
mathematical table to the interpretation of
stellar spectra. He developed the first model of
the solar atmosphere to take into account rocket
and satellite observations of the Sun. Prof.
Gingerich is a leading authority on the
17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler
and on Nicholas Copernicus, the 16th-century
Polish cosmologist who proposed the Sun-centered
planetary system. He has personally tracked down
hundreds of first editions of Copernicus’s De
revolutionibus. An account of this
adventure, The Book Nobody Read, has been
issued as a Penguin paperback and in seven
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international editions. The American Astronomical
Society recognized Prof. Gingerich in 2000 for his
contributions to the history of science and in 2004 for
his work in education. He has also won the
Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa prize for excellence in
teaching and has had an asteroid named in his honor by
the International Astronomical Union. An inveterate
world traveler, Prof. Gingerich has successfully
observed 13 total solar eclipses. |
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