David H. Levy
David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948 in Montreal , Québec , Canada ) is a Canadian astronomer , non-fiction author and science journalist. He gained international fame through his co-discovery of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 , which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994 .
Levy has written more than 30 books, mostly on astronomical subjects, such as The Quest for Comets , a 1991 biography of Pluto explorer Clyde Tombaugh , and a 1994 tribute to his colleague Gene Shoemaker entitled Shoemaker by Levy . In his work Comets: Creators and Destroyers he coined the much quoted sentence: "Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want". (Like, "Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do what they want.") He has also written numerous articles for periodicals such as Sky and Telescope , Parade , Sky News , and more recently for Astronomy contributed.
Life
From 1968 to 1972 Levy studied English literature at Acadia University , where he obtained a BA . He then graduated from Queen's University with a Masters ( MA ). The title of his thesis is: The Starlight Night: Hopkins and Astronomy . In February 2010 he received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with his dissertation The Sky in Early Modern English Literature for Ph. D.
Since 1997 he has been married to Wendee Wallach-Levy, who has directed the Jarnac Observatory since 2004 , and with whom he lives in Vail , Arizona . He received an Emmy in 1998 for his work on the Discovery Channel documentary Three Minutes to Impact as a writer . The scientific honors bestowed were Levy, include the CA Chant - Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1980) and G. Bruce Blair Medal (1990). In 1993 he won the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Amateur Achievement Award . In 2007 he received the Edgar Wilson Award from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for discovering comets. In addition, the asteroid (3673) Levy, discovered in 1985, was named after him.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ David H. Levy, The Quest for Comets: An Explosive Trail of Beauty and Danger , Springer, 1994
- ^ David H. Levy, Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of Planet Pluto , University of Arizona Press, 1991
- ^ David H. Levy, Shoemaker by Levy: The Man who Made an Impact , Princeton University Press, 2000
- ↑ David H. Levy, Comets: Creators and Destroyers , Simon & Schuster, 1994
- ^ David H. Levy | Canadian astronomer and science writer . In: Encyclopedia Britannica . ( britannica.com [accessed October 9, 2018]).
- ↑ a b David H. Levy: Resume for David H. Levy. In: official résumé. David H. Levy, March 2011, accessed November 6, 2018 .
- ↑ David H. Levy, The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572-1620 , Springer Science & Business Media, 2011
- ↑ David H. Levy's Home Page - Home of David and Wendee Levy , under: " About David ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. "(Accessed on December 26, 2018)
- ↑ Western Amateur Astronomers , under: " G. BRUCE BLAIR AWARD Recipients " (accessed December 26, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levy, David H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian astronomer and science journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Quebec |