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Necia Apfel (née Halpern; born July 31, 1930) is an American astronomer , author and educator.
Personal life [ edit ]
Necia Halpern graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and did graduate work at Radcliffe College and Northwestern University . She has lectured about astronomy to children in the Chicago area and taught courses on the teaching of astronomy at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois .[citation needed ]
She married Donald A. Apfel on September 7, 1952. They had two children. He predeceased her. She lives in Highland Park, Illinois . After retiring, she was a volunteer and past President of the Friends of the Highland Park Public Library .[1] She is the author of two college textbooks on astronomy and ten books for children.[2]
Bibliography [ edit ]
It's All Elementary: From Atoms to the Quantum World of Quarks, Leptons and Gluons , Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books (c1985), ISBN 0-688-04092-6
Nebulae: The Birth and Death of Stars , Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books (c1988) ISBN 0-688-07228-3
Voyager to the Planets , Clarion Books (c1991), ISBN 0-395-55209-5
It's All Relative: Einstein's Theory of Relativity , with diagrams by Yukio Kondo, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books (c1981), ISBN 0-688-41981-X
Astronomy and Planetology: Projects for Young Scientists , F. Watts (1983)
Arco Astronomy Projects for Young Scientists , Arco Pub (c1984), ISBN 0-668-06006-9
Architecture of the Universe , with J. Allen Hynek , Benjamin/Cummings (c1979), ISBN 0-8053-4747-X
Orion, The Hunter , Clarion Books (c1995), ISBN 0-395-68962-7 [3]
Space Station (First Books) , F. Watts (1987), ISBN 0-531-10394-3
Moon and Its Exploration: A First Book (First Books) , F. Watts (1982), ISBN 0-531-04385-1
Stars and Galaxies. (1982) ISBN 0-531-04389-4[4]
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^ "Award-winning Children Books list" (PDF) . caes.uga.edu . University of Georgia: College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Retrieved March 28, 2010 .
^ Apfel, Necia H. (1982). Stars and galaxies . New York: Watts. ISBN 0-531-04389-4 . OCLC 8032033 .
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