Eric Schulman

Eric Schulman

Eric Schulman is an American astronomer and science humorist. Schulman received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Michigan. [E. R. Schulman, " [http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/howto.htm How to Write a Scientific Paper] ,"Annals of Improbable Research" [http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/v2i5-toc.html Vol. 2, No. 5] (1996), 8. ] He is the author of "A Briefer History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Big Mac" (1999) and has been a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Improbable Research since 1998. He sometimes uses the pen name E. Robert Schulman when writing science humor articles. Schulman was the first "Armchair Astrophysics" columnist for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's " Mercury" Magazine (he was succeeded by Christopher Wanjek in 2001).

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* [http://members.verizon.net/~vze3fs8i/ Eric Schulman's Home Page]


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