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Donald Goldsmith

Born

in The United States

February 24, 1943

Genre

Nonfiction, Popular Science

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Donald Goldsmith is an astrophysicist, popular science author and screenwriter. He is the president of Interstellar Media. He is also the winner of the 1995 American Astronomical Society's Annenberg Foundation Award for Education and the Klumpke-Roberts Prize for his contributions to the public understanding of astronomy.

He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969.He taught at Stony Brook University before becoming a full-time popularizer, and has written, co-written, or edited a number of popular science books.

His book "Origins," co-written with Neil Tyson, was the companion volume to the four-hour PBS series with the same title. Dr. Goldsmith worked on Carl Sagan's "COSMOS" series, and on Neil T ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 10,558 ratings · 755 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life 3.95 avg rating — 83 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	البحث عن حياة على المريخ by Donald Goldsmith, إيهاب عبد الرحيم محمد (ترجمة) 3.76 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration by Donald Goldsmith, Martin Rees 3.27 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Search for Life in the Universe by Donald Goldsmith, Tobias Owen 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	E = Einstein: His Life, His Thought, and His Influence on Our Culture by Donald Goldsmith (Editor), Marcia Bartusiak (Editor) 3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Einstein's Greatest Blunder? The Cosmological Constant & Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Runaway Universe: The Race to Find the Future of the Cosmos 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Astronomers 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scientists Confront Velikovsky by Donald Goldsmith (editor), Isaac Asimov (Foreword by) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Black Hole to the Infinite Universe by Donald Goldsmith, Donald Levy 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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