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 Rick Fienberg |
Rick Fienberg spent 22 years at Sky & Telescope, the world’s premier astronomy magazine, where he is now Editor Emeritus. His incisive coverage of the Hubble Space Telescope for S&T won a citation from the National Space Club. For 2008-09, Rick is Visiting Scientist at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. An inveterate traveler and eclipse-chaser, he has visited all seven continents and the North and South Poles.
Before joining S&T in 1986, Rick earned his B.A. in physics at Rice University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard University; he has done research on the aurora borealis, planetary nebulas, active galaxies, and the center of the Milky Way. He’s been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named asteroid 9983 Rickfienberg in his honor. He is on coordinating committees for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 for both the IAU and the American Astronomical Society (AAS), where he is also Deputy Press Officer. The AAS hosts the U.S. National Node for IYA2009.
Although trained as a professional astronomer, Rick remains an amateur at heart, stargazing and taking astrophotos from his homebuilt hilltop observatory in southern New Hampshire.
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