Michael Lemonick

Michael D. Lemonick (/ˈlɛmənɪk/ LEM-ə-nik,^[1] born 13 October 1953) is an opinion editor at Scientific American, a former senior staff writer at Climate Central^[2] and a former senior science writer at Time.^[3]

Michael D. Lemonick
Born	(1953-10-13) 13 October 1953 (age 71)
Education	Princeton High School
Alma mater	Harvard University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Employer	Scientific American
Spouse	Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick
Father	Aaron Lemonick

He has also written for Discover,^[4] Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, and other publications, and has written several popular-science books.

Life

The son of Princeton University physics professor and administrator Aaron Lemonick^[5] and a native of Princeton, New Jersey, Lemonick graduated from Princeton High School,^[6] then earned degrees at Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He teaches communications and journalism at Princeton University^[7] and resides in Princeton with his wife Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, a photographer and photography instructor at Princeton Day School.

Bibliography

Books

• The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Leading Cosmologists on the Brink of a Scientific Revolution (May 11, 1993)
• Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe (May 14, 1998)
• Echo of the Big Bang (2003); 2nd edition (Apr 24, 2005)
• The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos (Great Discoveries) (Dec 14, 2009)
• Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin (Oct 29, 2013); 2012 ebook
• The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Cosmology (Princeton Legacy Library) (July 14, 2014)
• The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love (Feb 7, 2017)

Essays and reporting

• Lemonick, Michael (Sep 2013). "Save our satellites". Big Idea. Discover. 34 (7): 22, 24.^[8]
• Lemonick, Michael D., "Cosmic Nothing: Huge empty patches of the universe could help solve some of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos", Scientific American, vol. 330, no. 1 (January 2024), pp. 20–27.