He was also a friend of and collaborator with American astronomer Carl Sagan.įerris is a Guggenheim fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has served as a consultant to NASA on long-term space exploration policy, and was among the journalists selected as candidates to fly aboard the Space Shuttle in 1986 the planned flight was cancelled due to the Challenger disaster. Ferris produced the Voyager Golden Record, an artifact of human civilization containing music, sounds of Earth and encoded photographs launched aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Writing and NASA Īfter starting his career as a newspaper reporter, Ferris became an editor at Rolling Stone, where he initially specialized in science journalism. He studied for one year at the Northwestern University Law School before joining United Press International as a reporter, working in New York City. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1966 with majors in English and communications.
Ferris has produced three PBS documentaries: The Creation of the Universe, Life Beyond Earth, and Seeing in the Dark.įerris is a native of Miami, Florida and a graduate of Coral Gables Senior High School. He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular science book on the study of the universe. Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty (2010) and Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. American Association for the Advancement of Science writing prizeĪstronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, astrobiology, space science, planetary science.American Institute of Physics science-writing medal (× 2).Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1986).
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