- Martin Harwit
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Martin Harwit (born March 9, 1931 in Prague) is a Czech-American astronomer, author, and was director of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1995. His scientific work on Infrared astronomy as a professor at Cornell University is notable.[citation needed]
In 1994 he became embroiled in public debate when his work on the Enola Gay exhibit, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , was accused of being "revisionist history" for including Japanese accounts of the attack and photographs of the victims,[1] and for presenting an exhibit script that critics alleged "depicted the Japanese as victims of a United States motivated by vengeance."[2] The controversy led to his being forced to resign from the directorship of the National Air and Space Museum.[3]
Contents
Honors
Awards
- Bruce Medal (2007)
Named after him
Works
- Astrophysical Concepts (1. Auflage 1973, 4. Auflage 2006) ISBN 978-0-387-32943-7
- Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy (1981) ISBN 978-0-710-80089-3
- An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay (1996) ISBN 978-0-387-94797-6
References
- ^ Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution by Bernard Carl Rosen
- ^ "Chronology of the Controversy". Enola Gay Archive. Air Force Magazine.com. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/EnolaGayArchive/Pages/ChronologyoftheControversy.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ TELEVISION VIEW; Fifty Years Later, Still the Day After: Article The New York Times; Published: July 30, 1995
External links
- Cornell Page
- Oral History interview transcript with Martin Marwit 19 April 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
Categories:- 1931 births
- American astronomers
- Czech astronomers
- Living people
- Czech scientist stubs
- European astronomer stubs
- American astronomer stubs
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