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Harwit, Martin Otto was born on March 9, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Felix Michael and Regina Hedwig (Perutz) Haurowitz. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1953.
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The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is the world's most popular museum, with more than eight million visitors each year. The museum houses a celebrated collection of airplanes, spacecraft, and other artifacts that document the history of aviation and spaceflight. This book presents 280 artifacts from the museum's collection and archives, chronicling some of the greatest technological and human achievements of the century. Milestones of flight such as the Wright 1903 Flyer, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Earhart's Lockheed Vega, Yeager's Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, and the historic craft that took American astronauts into space and brought them back from the Moon are all here. So, too, are lesser known but nonetheless important workhorses of commercial and military aviation history such as the Douglas DC-3, the North American P-51 Mustang, and the Piper J-3 Cub. The unusual, the fanciful, the prototypes, and even a few unsuccessful experiments are included in this remarkable journey through the skies and into space. Finally, this book features a special "behind the scenes" look at vintage and modern photographs, posters, paintings, and sculpture from the museum's archives and collection of art and popular culture. This fascinating Tiny FolioTM serves as an illustrated survey of the history of aviation and spaceflight, as well as an introduction to the museum's renowned collection.
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Now in its 4th edition, this classic text presents a quantitative understanding of a range of astrophysical concepts. Emphasizing physical concepts, the book outlines cosmic events but does not portray them in detail. Instead, it provides a series of astrophysical sketches showing how to obtain quantitative insights into the structure and evolution of stars, the dynamics of cosmic gases, the large-scale behavior of the universe, and the origins of life. Nearly every part of the text has been reconsidered and rewritten for the new edition; new sections cover recent developments, and the remainder has been revised and brought up to date.
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astrophysicist educator museum director writer
Harwit, Martin Otto was born on March 9, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Felix Michael and Regina Hedwig (Perutz) Haurowitz. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1953.
Bachelor of Arts Physics, Oberlin College, 1951; Master of Arts in Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1960.
From 1987 to 1995. His scientific work on Infrared astronomy as a professor at Cornell University is notable. In 1994 he became embroiled in public debate when his work on the Enola Gay exhibit, marking 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, and for presenting an exhibit script that critics alleged "depicted the Japanese as victims of a United States motivated by vengeance." Two of the lines about the war in the Pacific became infamous: “Foreign most Americans this war was fundamentally different than the one waged against Germany and Italy—it was a war of vengeance. Thus began a wider conflict marked by extreme bitterness." Those lines, in turn, were immediately preceded by the following statements: Japanese expansionism was marked by naked aggression and extreme brutality.
The slaughter of tens of thousands of Chinese in Nanking in 1937 shocked the world.
Atrocities by Japanese troops included brutal mistreatment of civilians, forced laborers and prisoners of war, and biological experiments on human victims." The controversy led Harwit to resign as director of the National Air and Space Museum in May 1995.
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Foreign most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism.” The immediately preceding two sentences did acknowledge that "in December 1941, Japan attacked United States bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and launched other surprise assaults against Allied territories in the Pacific.
With United States Army, 1955-1957. Consultant to: Institute Space and Astronautical Science, Japan, 2007, Agence devaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement superieur, France, 2008, United States Naval Research Laboratory, 2008. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section on astronomy, 2001-2002, council member 2002-2003), American Physical Society (chairman division history of physics 1986-1987, chairman astrophysics division 1988-1989), Royal Astronomical Society.
Member American Astronomical Society.
Married Marianne Mark, February 1, 1957. Children: Alexander, Eric, Emily.