Govert Schilling

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

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Career

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

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

Bibliography

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

He has frequently collaborated with Lars Lindberg Christensen.

References

  1. ↑ "The world's oldest known heliocentric model is completely backwards".
  2. ↑ Schilling, Govert (June 2001). "Deep-Space 'Filament' Shows Cosmic Fabric". Science. 292 (5522): 1629–1631. doi:10.1126/science.292.5522.1629b. PMID   11387452. 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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