Jacqueline Mitton
Jacqueline Mitton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jacqueline Pardoe 1948 (age 75–76) England |
| Education | Somerville College, OxfordandMurray Edwards College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | Simon Mitton |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy |
Jacqueline Mitton(née Pardoe, born 1948) is a Britishastronomer,writer, and media consultant who lives and works inCambridge,UK. She studied atSomerville College, OxfordandMurray Edwards College, Cambridge.She has served as Public Relations Officer for theRoyal Astronomical Society.[1]From 1987 to 1993, she was the editor of theJournal of the British Astronomical Association.[2]She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to many books.
Mitton's career has focused on bringing astronomy to the public - both adults and children - as a writer. She received a Bachelor of Arts at Oxford University in 1969 and a PhD at Cambridge University in 1975. Her 1998 picture bookZoo in the Skyintroduces children to astronomy through an explanation of the stars and animal constellations.[3]Her 2003 bookOnce Upon a Starry Nightintroduces children to myths and facts about the solar system.
She was acounty councillorfor Cambridgeshire from 1989 to 1993.[citation needed]
Asteroid4027 Mittonis named after her and her husbandSimon Mitton.
Books[edit]
(not a complete list)
- Astronomy: an introduction(1978)
- Key definitions in astronomy(1980)
- Discovering Astronomy(1983), withSimon Mitton
- A Visitor's Introduction to the Antarctic and its Environment(1984), withNigel Bonner
- Invitation to Astronomy(1986), with Simon Mitton
- Gems of Hubble(1996), withStephen P. Maran
- Discovering the Planets(1991)
- The Young Oxford book of Astronomy(1994), with Simon Mitton
- The Great Comet Crash: The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter(1995), co-edited with John Spencer
- Galileo: scientist and star gazer(1997)
- Aliens(1998)
- The Marshall children's guide to astronomy(1998), with Simon Mitton
- Zoo in the Sky: a book of animal constellations(1998)
- Kingdom of the sun: a book of the planets(2001)
- "Working with the media: the Royal Astronomical Society experience", inOrganizations and Strategies in Astronomy II(2001), ed.André Heck
- Stars and planets(2002)
- Once Upon a Starry Night: Heroes and Gods of the Constellations(2003), republished asThe Planet Gods
- Oxford Astronomy(2003), with Simon Mitton
- Zodiac: celestial circle of the sun(2004)
- Cambridge illustrated dictionary of astronomy(2007)
- Moon(2009)
- I see the moon(2010)
- Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Unveiled(2010), withRalph Lorenz
- Space(2016)
- From dust to life: the origin and evolution of our solar system(2017), withJohn Chambers
- The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy(various editions)
References[edit]
- ^"UFOs - There's not a scrap of evidence, says leading astronomer".The Guardian.15 September 1999.Retrieved5 April2019.
- ^Foulkes, Mike (2014)."From dust to life − the origin and evolution of our solar system".British Astronomical Association.Retrieved5 April2019.
- ^"ZOO IN THE SKY".Kirkus Reviews.15 August 1998.Retrieved5 April2019.
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