Naomi Pasachoff’s Book Reviews
Contributor to Metascience, 2005-
- “Life in Prague”, Metascience (2020)
- “A stellar career in a male universe”, Metascience (2020)
- “Daughters of Selene” (about women with named craters on the Moon), Metascience (2020)
- “Einstein in exile”, Metascience (2020)
- In the footsteps of Galileo: raising the twenty-first-century profile of Father Angelo Secchi
- “Challenging the fake news about Mileva Einstein‑Marić and setting the record straight,” Metascience (2019)
- An uneven introduction to (too) many forgotten women scientists, studded with many interesting (if not necessarily on-topic) facts in Metascience (2019), 28(1), 105-110
- “Pioneering women in astronomy and aerospace,” Metascience (2017), 26:267-276.
- “A Textured Portrait of Max Planck for English-Speaking Readers,” Metascience (2016), 25:413-416.
- “Introducing the Large Hadron Collider to Its Stakeholders,” Metascience (2016), 25:61-64.
- “A Lively, if Sprawling, History of the Atomic Era,” Metascience (2015), 24:227-231.
- “The History of Electromagnetic Theory Through the Lives of Its Founders,” Metascience, (2015), 24:233-236.
- “Shakespeare the Copernican?,” Metascience (2015), 24:99-102.
- “Assessing the Assessment of Five Fruitful Scientific Faux Pas,” Metascience (2014) 23: 633-637.
- “Celebrating Photography’s Two Fathers,” Metascience (2014)23:639-643.
- “A Provocative Thesis Unproven,” Metascience (2013), 22:89-92.
- “Radioactivity Redux,” Survey Review, Metascience (2013), 22:63-68.
- “A Difficult Subject Leavened with Human Interest,” Metascience (2012) 21:139-142.
- “Windows into the Lives of the Men Who Brought Us Quantum Mechanics,” Survey Review, Metascience (2010) 19:229-238.
- “Postscripts to the Centennial Celebration of Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis,” Survey Review, Metascience (2009) 18:207-222.
- “Advanced Academic Gossip,” Metascience (2008) 17:49-53.
- “The Passion and Politics of Science” Metascience (2007) 16:469-473.
- “A Not Quite Random Walk Through Some Scientific Lives,” Survey Review, Metascience (2007) 16:225-237.
- “The Many Facets of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” Survey Review, Metascience (2006) 15:251-263.
- “The Many Lives of Marie Curie,” Survey Review, Metascience (2005) 14:377-389.
Contributor to Physics in Perspective, 2007-2013:
- Gribbin, John: Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution Age (2013); reviewed in 15 (2013), 502, by Naomi Pasachoff.
- Gertner, Jon: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Invention Age (2012); reviewed in 15 (2013), 365, by Naomi Pasachoff.
- Cassidy, David C.: A Short History of Physics in the American Century (2011); reviewed in 14 (2012), 384-387, by Naomi Pasachoff.
- Jayawardhana, Ray: Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System (2011); reviewed in 14 (2012), 117-119, by Naomi Pasachoff.
- Nussbaumer, Harry and Lydia Bieri: Discovering the Expanding Universe (2009); reviewed in 12 (2010), 353-355, by Naomi Pasachoff.
- Kragh, Helge: The Moon That Wasn’t: The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite (2008); reviewed in 12 (2010), 104-108, by Jay M. Pasachoff and Naomi Pasachoff.
- Larsen, Kristine: Stephen Hawking (2007), reviewed in 10 (2008), 489-491, by Jay M. Pasachoff and Naomi Pasachoff.
- Lisa Randall, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. New York: HarperCollins, 2011, xxi + 442 pages.
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Naomi Pasachoff’s Physics/Astrophysics Crosswords
A periodic table–themed crossword puzzle – April 29, 2019 –
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20190426a/full/
See also earlier Crossword Puzzles:
December 11, 2017
In honor of the LIGO detection of gravitational waves
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20171211a/full/
January 1, 2016
Celebrating the International Year of Light
Physics Today 69(1), 13 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3038
December 1, 2015
Crossword puzzle—Celebrating the International Year of Light
Physics Today 68(12), 15 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3004
September 1, 2012
In memory of Niels Bohr
Physics Today 65(9), 9 (2012); https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1695
Answers: In memory of Niels Bohr
Physics Today 65(10), 13 (2012); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.1735
Other Naomi Pasachoff astronomy-related crossword puzzles