Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris is the author of a dozen books, among them Seeing in the Dark, The Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the Milky Way, which was translated into 15 languages and named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the 20th century. A former newspaper reporter and editor of Rolling Stone magazine, he has written over 200 articles and essays for publications including The New Yorker, National Geographic, and the The New York Review of Books. His three documentary films have been seen by more than 20 million viewers worldwide. Ferris produced the Voyager phonograph record, launched abroad the twin Voyager interstellar spacecraft currently exiting the solar system. He has received the American Institute of Physics prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is currently an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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