Alan Hirshfeld

Alan Hirshfeld is a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an associate of the Harvard College Observatory. He is the author of "The Electric Life of Michael Faraday "and "Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos." He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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