Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris
	Ferris in 2009
Born	August 24, 1944
Education	Coral Gables Senior High School
Alma mater	Northwestern University School of Law
Awards	Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1986); American Institute of Physics science-writing medal (× 2); American Association for the Advancement of Science writing prize;
	Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, astrobiology, space science, planetary science
Website	www.timothyferris.com

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Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer. He is best known for Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), a history of astronomy which won the Science Writing Award. He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular overview of cosmology. In The Science of Liberty (2010), he argues that scientific thinking played a role in democracy. Ferris has produced three PBS documentaries: The Creation of the Universe (1985), Life Beyond Earth (1999), and Seeing in the Dark (2007). He was a producer of the Voyager Golden Record, a sample of the sights and sounds of Earth sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft.