Michael D. Lemonick (/ˈlɛmənɪk/ LEM-ə-nik, born 13 October 1953) is an opinion editor at Scientific American, a former senior staff writer at Climate Central and a former senior science writer at Time.

He has also written for Discover, Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, and other publications, and has written several popular-science books.

Life

The son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator Aaron Lemonick and a native of Princeton, New Jersey, Lemonick graduated from Princeton High School, then earned degrees at Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He teaches communications and journalism at Princeton University and resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at Princeton Day School.

Bibliography

Books

  • The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Leading Cosmologists on the Brink of a Scientific Revolution (May 11, 1993)
  • Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe (May 14, 1998)
  • (2003); 2nd edition (Apr 24, 2005)
  • (Great Discoveries) (Dec 14, 2009)
  • Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin (Oct 29, 2013);
  • (Princeton Legacy Library) (July 14, 2014)
  • (Feb 7, 2017)

Essays and reporting

  • Lemonick, Michael (Sep 2013). . Big Idea. Discover. 34 (7): 22, 24.
  • Lemonick, Michael D., "Cosmic Nothing: Huge empty patches of the universe could help solve some of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos", Scientific American, vol. 330, no. 1 (January 2024), pp. 20–27.

External links

  • . Scientific American (scientificamerican.com).
  • . YouTube. The Royal Society. 10 December 2013. from the original on 2021-12-13. (public lecture by Michael Lemonick, 27 February 2009)