Amy Shira Teitel

Amy Shira Teitel
Born Amy Shira Teitel
(1986-09-15) September 15, 1986
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian, American
Occupation popular science writer, journalist

Amy Shira Teitel (born September 15, 1986) is an American-Canadian[1] popular science writer, spaceflight historian,[2] and online television host best known for writing Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury 2015).[3]

Career

Writer

She is a native of Toronto, [4] Teitel has written for The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica, and Al Jazeera English.[5][6]

Her first book, Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury 2015), tells the story of America's nascent space program.[7][8]

As a Jewish writer, she says she came into a difficult problem writing about her childhood hero Wernher von Braun, who was a Nazi and a member of the SS, stating: "This was a matter of getting history right, which is something I'm very passionate about, but I also had to be careful not to incur the wrath of my family."[9]

Video

She is a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel.[10] According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the popularity of her YouTube channel "has also resulted in her becoming something of a go-to girl for science shows on mainstream television."[11]

References

  1. ↑ History is rocket science to Amy Shira Teitel July 7, 2016, Cosmos Magazine
  2. ↑ The first female space shuttle commander will speak at the GOP convention. Huh? By Sarah Scoles, July 15, 2016, Washington Post
  3. ↑ WHY THIS CANADIAN SPACE BLOGGER WROTE A BOOK ON NASA'S ORIGINS Q&A WITH AMY SHIRA TEITEL ON 'BREAKING THE CHAINS OF GRAVITY' By Matt Giles January 13, 2016, Popular Science
  4. ↑ Introducing: Amy Shira Teitel By Bora Zivkovic on June 4, 2012, Scientific American
  5. ↑ Amy Shira Teitel Al Jazeera English, Author Biography
  6. ↑ AMY SHIRA TEITEL Popular Science, Author Biography
  7. ↑ The True Story of How Nazis Invented the Space Program Ezra Glinter, January 25, 2016, Jewish Daily Forward
  8. ↑ Breaking the Chains of Gravity Bloomsbury
  9. ↑ Jewish space flight historian and YouTube star struggles with rocket science's Nazi history by Andrew Masterson, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 9, 2016
  10. ↑ ‘Science Presents DNews’ Welcomes President (and Science Enthusiast) President Obama
  11. ↑ Jewish space flight historian and YouTube star struggles with rocket science's Nazi history by Andrew Masterson, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 9, 2016

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