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Govert Schilling

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Govert Schilling (born 30 November 1956) is a Dutch popular science writer and amateur astronomer.

Career

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Schilling was born in Meerkerk. In 1982, he became the program leader at the former Zeiss Planetarium, Amsterdam.

From 1987 to 1998 he was also a part-time appointee as a program leader at the Artis Planetarium in Amsterdam.

He has extensively written for the Sky & Telescope magazine[1] and Science.[2]

Honours

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The asteroid 10986 Govert is named after him.[3]

Bibliography

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He is the author of a number of bestselling books.[4]

He has frequently collaborated with Lars Lindberg Christensen.

  • Europe to the Stars: ESO's first 50 years of exploring the southern sky
  • Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries
  • Evolving Cosmos
  • Eyes on the Skies: 400 Years of Telescopic Discovery
  • The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto ISBN 978-0-387-77804-4
  • Flash!: The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe
  • Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and the Future of Astronomy

References

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  1. ^ "The world's oldest known heliocentric model is completely backwards".
  2. ^ Schilling, Govert (June 2001). "Deep-Space 'Filament' Shows Cosmic Fabric". Science. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014.
  3. ^ Radio Netherlands' science producer Anne Blair Gould conducted a wide-ranging interview with Govert Schilling in 2005
  4. ^ "Govert Schilling".
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