1. Timothy Ferris was born on August 29,1944 and is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty and Coming of Age in the Milky Way, for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Timothy Ferris wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe Report, a popular science book on the study of the universe.
Timothy Ferris is a graduate of Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, Florida.
Timothy Ferris attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1966 with majors in English and communications.
Timothy Ferris studied for one year at the Northwestern University Law School.
Timothy 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.
Timothy Ferris 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.
Timothy Ferris was a friend of and collaborator with American astronomer Carl Sagan.
Timothy Ferris has taught astronomy, English, history, journalism, and philosophy at four universities.
Timothy Ferris is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Timothy Ferris has been a columnist for Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Science Digest magazines and a commentator for National Public Radio, MS-NBC, and the PBS News Hour.
Timothy Ferris is a Guggenheim fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Timothy Ferris won the Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1986, and has twice won the American Institute of Physics science-writing medal and the American Association for the Advancement of Science writing prize.
Timothy Ferris was named a CNN "Voice of the Millennium" in 1999.