George Musser
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George Musser(born 1965) is a contributing editor forScientific Americanmagazine in New York and the author ofThe Complete Idiot’s Guide toString Theory[1]and ofSpooky Action at a Distance.[2]
Biography
[edit]Musser did his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and mathematics atBrown Universityand his graduate studies in planetary science atCornell University,where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. His thesis work modeled mantle convection on Venus in order to explain broad plateaus, known ascoronae,mapped by theMagellan orbiter.Musser served as editor ofMercurymagazine and of the Universe in the Classroom tutorial series at theAstronomical Society of the Pacific,a science and science-education nonprofit based in San Francisco.
A number of articles Musser solicited and edited have appeared inThe Best American Science WritingandThe Best American Science & Nature Writinganthologies. He was the originator and one of the lead editors for the single-topic issue "A Matter of Time,"Scientific American(Sept. 2002), which won aNational Magazine Awardfor editorial excellence, and he coordinated the single topic issue "Crossroads for Planet Earth,"Scientific American(Sept. 2005), which won a Global Media Award from the Population Institute and was a National Magazine Award finalist.[3][4]In 2010, Musser won theJonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Awardfrom theDivision for Planetary Sciencesfor his science writing onplanetary sciences.In 2011, Musser won theScience Writing Awardfrom theAmerican Institute of Physicsfor his article"Could Time End?"in the September 2010 issue of Scientific American.[5]His bookSpooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everythingwas published in 2015.
Musser is a resident ofGlen Ridge, New Jersey.[6]
Selected works
[edit]- 2015Spooky Action at a Distance,Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Musser, George (June 2010). "A simple twist of fate".Scientific American.302(6): 9–10.Bibcode:2010SciAm.302f..14M.doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0610-14(inactive 1 November 2024).PMID20521469.
{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - — (June 2010). "Extra dimensions".Scientific American.302(6): 23.Bibcode:2010SciAm.302f..39M.doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0610-39.
- George Musser, "Artificial Imagination:How machines could learncreativityandcommon sense,among other human qualities ",Scientific American,vol. 320, no. 5 (May 2019), pp. 58–63.
References
[edit]- ^Musser G., 2008,The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory,Alpha publish.,ISBN978-1592577026
- ^Musser G., 2015,Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,ISBN978-0374298517
- ^Mensa Colloquium 2006: Revolution in Cosmology
- ^"Crossroads for Planet Earth Seminar Proceedings"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2008-05-11.Retrieved2008-09-27.
- ^"American Institute of Physics announces winners of the 2011 AIP Science Communication Awards".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-12-01.Retrieved2011-10-15.
- ^Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of EverythingArchived2018-09-03 at theWayback Machine,Scientific American.Accessed September 2, 2018. "He lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter."
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