Mon, Jun 03
|Virtual event
Meet the Author, Matt Shindell
Meet the Author is a virtual program and is available on-demand following the event. It is sponsored by Friends of Fauquier Library and made possible through the Library Speaker's Consortium.
Time & Location
Jun 03, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Virtual event
About the event
Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. You’re invited to come learn alongside Matt Shindell, National Air and Space Museum curator, as he introduces viewers to historical figures across eras and around the world who have made sense of this mysterious planet. Matthew Shindell, Ph.D., is a historian of science with a background in science studies. He is Curator of Earth and Planetary Science at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Shindell is the author of For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet (2023) and The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey (2019), coauthor of Spaceships (2023), Our Future in Space (2023), and Discerning Experts (2019), and co-editor of Smithsonian American Women (2019).
Registration is required; all programs will also be available for on-demand viewing following the event. Learn more at https://bit.ly/fplauthor.