Washington, D.C., Moscow, Paris, Tucson, Punalu'u 1988-1996
About the Author
William K. Hartmann is known internationally as a scientist, writer, and painter. His scientific research involves the origin and evolution of planets and planetary surfaces, and the small bodies of the solar system. He is the lead author of what has become the most widely accepted theory of the origin of the moon. Asteroid 3341 is named after him in recognition of his planetary research.
Hartmann has been involved in several space missions. He was a Co-Investigator on the NASA Mariner 9 mission, which was first to map Mars in detail with an orbiting spacecraft, and on NASA's Mars Observer mission. He is currently a Participating Scientist in the U.S. Mars Global Surveyor mission.
In 1981, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for his collaboration with Ron Miller, The Grand Tour.
Hartmann holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy and an M.S. in Geology from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Physics from Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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