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 ISBN 978-0-387-77804-4
- Flash!: The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe
- Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and the Future of Astronomy
References
- ^ "The world's oldest known heliocentric model is completely backwards".
- ^ Schilling, Govert (June 2001). "Deep-Space 'Filament' Shows Cosmic Fabric". Science. 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
- ^ "Govert Schilling".
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