Marcia Bartusiak
Year Title Publisher Subject matter
1986 Thursday 's Universe Random House Astronomy and Astrophysics
1993 Through a Universe Darkly HarperCollins History of Astronomy
2000 Einstein 's Unfinished Symphony : Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time Joseph Henry Press Astronomy
2004 Archives of the Universe : A Treasury of Astronomy 's Historic Works of Discovery Pantheon Books History of Astronomy
2009 The Day We Found the Universe Pantheon Books History of Astronomy
2015 Black Hole Yale University Press History of Astronomy
2017 Einstein 's Unfinished Symphony : The Story of a Gamble , Two Black Holes , and a New Age of Astronomy Yale University Press Astronomy and Astrophysics
2018 Dispatches from Planet 3 Yale University Press Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Marcia F. Bartusiak is an author, journalist, and Professor of the Practice Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained in both communications (B.A. from American University) and physics (M.S. from Old Dominion University), she writes about the fields of astronomy and physics. Marcia has been published in National Geographic, Discover, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Science, Popular Science, World Book Encyclopedia, Smithsonian, and MIT Technology Review. She is a columnist for Natural History magazine. Bartusiak has three times won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award - in 2019 for Dispatches from Planet 3, in 2001 for Einstein's Unfinished Symphony and in 1982 for The Ultimate Timepiece in Discover Magazine. She won the 2006 American Institute of Physics Andrew W. Gemant Award. 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. And in 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her latest books are Dispatches from Planet 3, a collection of cosmological essays, a revision of Einstein's Unfinished Symphony, on the history of gravitational-wave astronomy, and 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, and Through a Universe Darkly, a history of astronomers' centuries-long quest to discover the universe's composition.