Dennis Overbye Correspondent, New York Times Dennis Overbye is the cosmic affairs correspondent for the New York Times. His reporting can range from the mating habits of black holes and zero-gravity fashion shows to science in the movies, the status of Pluto and the fate of the universe. He is the author of two books: Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe (HarperCollins, 1991), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction; and Einstein in Love, A Scientific Romance (Viking Penguin, 2000). His account of the discovery of the Higgs boson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2014. His writing has also won awards from the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Physics and the American Astronomical Society. He was born in Seattle in 1944. He graduated from Mercer Island High School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a BS in physics in 1966. After a year of graduate school at UCLA he embarked on a career as a writer. He served as an assistant editor of Sky and Telescope magazine and a writer and senior editor of Discover magazine before joining the New York Times in 1998 as the deputy science editor. He lives in New York City with his wife, Nancy Wartik and daughter Mira. In his house Pluto is still a planet. Participant In: Life in the Universe 2:30 pm on Saturday, March 9th, 2019 Past Event Watch the video » With billions of stars and galaxies in the observable universe, the possibility of life elsewhere has intrigued both scientists and philosophers alike. In this roundtable, we will explore the notion of life in the universe and what it might look like elsewhere. See recent news from one of our participants: https://news.yale.edu/2019/02/04/yale-astrophysicists-prediction-comes-pass-20-years-later
Life in the Universe 2:30 pm on Saturday, March 9th, 2019 Past Event Watch the video » With billions of stars and galaxies in the observable universe, the possibility of life elsewhere has intrigued both scientists and philosophers alike. In this roundtable, we will explore the notion of life in the universe and what it might look like elsewhere. See recent news from one of our participants: https://news.yale.edu/2019/02/04/yale-astrophysicists-prediction-comes-pass-20-years-later