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The Sky Is Not the Limit - Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (Paperback, Revised)
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The Sky Is Not the Limit - Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (Paperback, Revised)
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From the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the host
of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,a memoir about growing up and a
young man's budding scientific curiosity. This is the absorbing
story of Neil deGrasse Tyson's lifelong fascination with the night
sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof
of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become
the director of the Hayden Planetarium. A unique chronicle of a
young man who at one time was both nerd and jock, Tyson's memoir
could well inspire other similarly curious youngsters to pursue
their dreams. Like many athletic kids he played baseball, won
medals in track and swimming, and was captain of his high school
wrestling team. But at the same time he was setting up a telescope
on winter nights, taking an advanced astronomy course at the Hayden
Planetarium, and spending a summer vacation at an astronomy camp in
the Mojave Desert. Eventually, his scientific curiosity prevailed,
and he went on to graduate in physics from Harvard and to earn a
Ph.D. in astrophysics from Columbia. There followed postdoctoral
research at Princeton. In 1996, he became the director of the
Hayden Planetarium, where some twenty-five years earlier he had
been awed by the spectacular vista in the sky theater. Tyson pays
tribute to the key teachers and mentors who recognized his
precocious interests and abilities, and helped him succeed. He
intersperses personal reminiscences with thoughts on scientific
literacy, careful science vs. media hype, the possibility that a
meteor could someday hit the Earth, dealing with society's racial
stereotypes, what science can and cannot say about the existence of
God, and many other interesting insights about science, society,
and the nature of the universe. Now available in paperback with a
new preface and other additions, this engaging memoir will
enlighten and inspire an appreciation of astronomy and the wonders
of our universe.
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