Naomi Pasachoff’s Book Reviews
Contributor to Metascience, 2005-
- “Life in Prague”, Metascience, 30(2), 203-206 (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
BOOK REVIEWS
Contributor to the IAU Teaching Commission Newsletter
Semi-annual reviews in the newsletter of theInternational Astronomical Union’s Commission on the Teaching of Astronomy (autumn 2009-autumn 2015)http://iaucc1.frm.utn.edu.ar/?page_id=214:
Fall 2009 (#71)
Renée Bergland, Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics (Boston: Beacon Press, 2008).
Elizabeth Rusch, The Planet Hunter: The Story Behind What Happened to Pluto (Flagstaff: Rising Moon Books, 2007).
Spring 2010 (#72)
Charles T. Bourland and Gregory L. Vogt, The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More (New York: Springer, 2009).
James B. Kaler, Heaven’s Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). $24.95 (hardcover). xii + 250. ISBN 978-0-691-12946-4 5245.
Spring 2011 (#74)
Michael Hoskin, Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-691-14833-5. 237 + xvi. $29.95 hardcover.
Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010. ISBN 978-0-38-53108-5. 267 + xiii. $25 hardcover.
Fall 2011 (#75)
Stuart Clark, The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2011).
ISBN 978 1 84697 174 7,ebook ISBN 978 0 85790 014 2
Govert Schilling, Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries (New York: Springer, 2011). $39.95 (hardcover). iv + 234. ISBN 978-1-4419-7810-3.
Spring 2012 (#76)
Mary Brück, Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009). $129.00 (hardcover). xvii + 277. ISBN 978-90-481-2472-5.
Anne L. Kinney, Diana Khachadourian, Pamela S. Millar and Colleen N. Hartman, eds., Women in Astronomy and Space Science: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Diverse Workforce. Proceedings from the conference held at The Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland, University College, October 21-23, 2009. www.nasa.gov
Spring 2013 (#77)
Stuart Clark, The Sensorium of God (Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 2012). 280 pp. HB ISBN 978-1-84697-187-7, £12.99. PBK £7.99 and eBook, ISBN 978-1846972157.
Françoise Launay, The Astronomer Jules Janssen: A Globetrotter of Celestial Physics, trans. Storm Dunlop (New York: Springer, 2012). 220 + xv. HB $199. ISBN 978-1-4614-0696-9. Ebook, $99. ISBN 978-1-4614-0697-6.
Fall 2013 (#78)
Nick Kanas, Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography, 2nd ed. (New York: Springer, 2012). 528 + xxxv. PB $44.95. ISBN 978-1-4614-0916-8. eBook $35.99. ISBN 978-1-4614-0917-5.
Simon Mitton, Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011). 369 + xi. PB $36.99. ISBN 978-0-521-18947-7.
Spring 2014 (#79)
Stuart Clark, The Day Without Yesterday: The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth Trilogy, Book III (Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 2013). 252. HB £12.99. ISBN 978-1-84697-247-8.
Biman B. Nath, The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics (Heidelberg: Springer, 2012). 285 pages. PB $39.95. ISBN 978-1-4614-5362-8.
Barrie W. Jones, Element 94: A Thriller for Young Adults (available from Amazon UK, 2011). 152 pages. PB £5.60. ISBN 978-1-291-32550-8. ISBN 978-1-4027-8071-4.
Fall 2014 (#80)
Donald W. Olson, Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature (New York: Springer, 2014). xvi + 355 pages. PB $39.99. ISBN 978-1-4614-8402-8. eBook $29.99. ISBN 978-1-4614-8403-5.
Jim Bell, The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy (New York: Sterling, 2013). 528 pages. HB $29.95.
Spring 2015 (#81)
Alan Hirshfeld, Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2014). 400 pages. PB $19.95. ISBN 978-1-934137-79-6.
Selected Correspondence of William Huggins, 2 volumes, ed. Barbara J. Becker (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014). Volume 1: Selected Correspondence, 1859-1889. 641+L. Volume 2: Selected Correspondence, 1889-1915. 691+X. ISBN-13:9781848934153. $495 HB.
Fall 2015 (#82)
Richard Paul and Steven Moss, We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015). 300+xii pages. HB $30.00. ISBN 978-0-292-77249-6.
Lily Koppel, The Astronaut Wives Club (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014). 304+xvi pages. PB $17.00. ISBN 978-1-4555-0324-7.
. Semiannual reviews in IAU Commission C1 Astronomy education and Development Newsletter (Spring 2016-):
CC1 Newsletter:1-2016
Sylvia L. Boyd, Portrait of a Binary: The Lives of Cecilia Payne and Sergei Gaposchkin (Marco Island, FL: Penobscot Press, 2014). 507 pages. HB $35.50, from author, 40 Bigelow Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472. ISBN 0-89725-942-4.
CC1 Newsletter:2-2016
Jim Bell, The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (New York: Dutton, 2015). 324+x pages. HB $27.95. ISBN 978-0-525-95432-3.
CC1 Newsletter:1-2017
Dava Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (New York: Viking, 2016). xii+324. ISBN-9780670016952. HB $30.00.
CC1 Newsletter:2-2017
Janna Levin, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space (New York: Knopf, 2016). 243 pages, HB $26.95. ISBN 978-0-307-95819-8.
CC1 Newsletter:1-2018
Carrie Brown, The Stargazer’s Sister: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 2015). 332 pages, HB $25.95. ISBN 978-0-8041-9793-9.
CC1 Newsletter:2-2018
Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (New York: William Morrow, 2016). xviii + 347 pages. HC $27.99. ISBN 9780062363596. eBook $14.99. ISBN 9780062363619.