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Dr. Steven J. Dick is the Chief Historian at NASA, and
recipient of the NASA Group Achievement Award for contributions to the field
of astrobiology. For 25 years he worked as an astronomer and historian of
science at the U. S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., including three
years at its Southern Hemisphere station in New Zealand. He is the author
of more than 100 publications, including The Biological Universe
(Cambridge U. Press, 1996), Life on Other Worlds (Cambridge U.
Press, 1998), and Sky and Ocean Joined: The U. S. Naval Observatory,
1830-2000 (Cambridge U. Press, 2000). Dr. Dick served as President
of the History of Astronomy Commission of the International Astronomical
Union, and as Chair of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American
Astronomical Society. He is President-elect of the Philosophical Society
of Washington.
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