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TITLE: Dawn of the Space Age
SPEAKER: Jonathan McDowell
EVENT DATE: 09/13/2005
RUNNING TIME: 44 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Dr. McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, presented a lecture "Dawn of the Space Age" sponsored by the Science, Technology and Business Division.
Speaker Biography: Jonathan McDowell is an astrophysicist with the Science Data Systems Planning Group in the Chandra X-Ray Center at Harvard. In addition to his day job, he carries out research into the history of the space program and writes a monthly column for Sky and Telescope Magazine.