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Simon Mitton (born 1946) is an astronomer and writer. He is based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He has written numerous astronomical works.〔''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy'', 1978.〕〔''Exploring the Galaxies'', 1974〕〔''Cambridge Scientific Minds'' 2000〕 The most well known of these is his biography of fellow Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle.〔"Fred Hoyle a life in Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011〕 ==Career== Elected to Council of the Royal Astronomical Society 2012–2016, and chairman of the RAS library committee. Mitton is a College Fellow〔''http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/mitton.html''〕 of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.〔"http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/"〕 He is a founder Director of Total Astronomy Limited,〔''http://www.totalastronomy.com''〕 a company based in Cambridge that provides media services for the astronomy and space industries. Earlier in his career, while employed by the Cambridge University Press, he was the editor in question when "Stephen Hawking famously put the success of his bestseller ''A Brief History of Time'' down to advice from his editor that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved. As a result the book included only a single equation, E = mc2." 〔Review of 'The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen.' by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.(Devlin, Science Correspondent, ''The Times'', October 31, 2011 )〕 Jointly with Jacqueline Mitton, he occasionally gives astronomy lectures on cruise ships. Recent assignments were with Fred. Olsen and Cunard. 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「Simon Mitton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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