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Marcia Bartusiak is an author, journalist, and Professor of the Practice of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT. She writes about the fields of astronomy and physics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://sciwrite.mit.edu/faculty )〕 Marcia has been published in ''National Geographic'', ''Discover'', ''Astronomy'', ''Sky & Telescope'', ''Science'', ''Popular Science'', ''World Book Encyclopedia'', ''Smithsonian'', and ''Technology Review''. She is a regular contributor to ''Natural History'' magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://naturalhistorymag.com/author/marcia-bartusiak )〕 Bartusiak has twice won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award - in 2001 for Einstein's Unfinished Symphony and in 1982 for Discover Magazine, "The Ultimate Timepiece". She won the 2006 American Institute of Physics Andrew W. Gemant Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/bartusiak.html )〕 "The Andrew Gemant Award recognizes the accomplishments of a person who has made significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics given annually."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.aip.org/aip/awards/gemawd.html )〕 Her latest book is ''Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved''. Bartusiak is also the author of ''Thursday's Universe'', a layman's guide to the frontiers of astrophysics and cosmology, ''Through a Universe Darkly'', a history of astronomers' centuries-long quest to discover the universe's composition, and ''Einstein's Unfinished Symphony'', about the on-going attempt to detect gravity waves, the last experimental test of Einstein's theory of general relativity. All three were named notable science books by ''The New York Times''. More recently published are ''The Day We Found the Universe'', a narrative saga of the birth of modern cosmology and the 2010 winner of the History of Science Society's Davis Prize (this prize recognizes books in the history of science directed to a wide public audience),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.hssonline.org/about/society_davis.html )〕 and ''Archives of the Universe'', a history of the major discoveries in astronomy told through 100 of the original scientific publications. == Bibliography == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcia Bartusiak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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