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"Infrared Astronomy Pioneer" Dr Martin Harwit Hand Signed TLS From 2006 COA:
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Up for sale "Air and Space Museum" Martin Harwit Hand Signed TLS Dated 2006. This piece

is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of

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Martin

Otto Harwit (born 9 March

1931) is a Czech-American astronomer and author known for his scientific work

on infrared astronomy as

a professor at Cornell University. He was

later director of the National Air and Space Museum in

Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1995. He attended Oberlin College for his B.A. in

physics, and earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan after

which he was awarded a Ph.D in physics by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

in 1960. That same year he was granted a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at

Cambridge University, followed in 1961 by a (US) National Science Foundation

postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University,

Ithaca, New York,  In

1962 he joined the astronomy faculty at Cornell and was later appointed

professor. His main interest lay in the building of telescopes to observe

infrared radiation from space, which required the telescopes to be launched

into orbit. He designed, built and launched the first telescopes in the late 1960s and also carried out

astronomical observations from high-altitude NASA aircraft. In 1987 he was

elected a Fellow of the

American Physical Society "in recognition of

twenty-five years of outstanding contributions to theoretical and observational

infrared astrophysics and for providing the leadership needed to create a

coordinated space astrophysics program for the remainder of the century through

the Great Observatory Program" In 1987, he moved from Cornell to be

director of the National Air and Space Museum in

Washington, DC, where he organised the production of three wide-screen IMAX

films, Blue Planet (1990),

dealing with Earth, Destiny in Space, dealing with space

exploration, and Cosmic Voyage, dealing with cosmic

space and time. The latter film, released in 1996, was nominated for a 1997

Academy Award for best documentary. The museum was also involved in the

restoration of historic aircraft, including the "Enola Gay", which

had dropped an atomic bomb in 1945 on the Japanese town of Hiroshima. In 1994

Harwit became embroiled in public debate when his preparations for an Enola Gay exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of

the event were accused of being "revisionist history" for including

Japanese accounts of the attack and photographs of the victims. His critics

alleged that the exhibition commentary "depicted the Japanese as victims

of a United States motivated by vengeance." Two

of the lines about the war in the Pacific became infamous: For most Americans

this war was fundamentally different than the one waged against Germany and

Italy—it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend

their unique culture against Western imperialism. The immediately preceding two

sentences did acknowledge that in December 1941, Japan attacked US bases at

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and launched other surprise assaults against Allied

territories in the Pacific. Thus began a wider conflict marked by extreme

bitterness. Those lines, in turn, were immediately preceded by Japanese

expansionism was marked by naked aggression and extreme brutality. The

slaughter of tens of thousands of Chinese in Nanking in 1937 shocked the world.

Atrocities by Japanese troops included brutal mistreatment of civilians, forced

laborers and prisoners of war, and biological experiments on human

victims."  The controversy led

Harwit to resign as director of the National Air and Space Museum in

May 1995. 

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