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Michael J. Neufeld

Michael J. Neufeld is a historian and author. He chaired the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum from 2007 to 2011, and continues to be a curator there.[1]

Biography

Neufeld was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1951.[2] He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Calgary and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1976 with a thesis entitled "He who will not work, neither shall he eat: German social democratic attitudes to labor, 1890-1914".[3] He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1984 with a dissertation on "From artisans to workers: the transformation of the skilled metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905".[4]

Since the 1990s, Neufeld has written several works about Wernher von Braun.[5]

Books

Books written

Books edited

  • with Yves Béon. (eds.) Planet Dora: a memoir of the Holocaust and the birth of the space age. Boulder, Colorado: WestviewPress, 1997.
  • with Michael Berenbaum. (eds.) The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
  • with Alex M. Spencer. (eds.) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography. Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2010.
  • Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
  • Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in association with Zenith Press, 2014.

References

  1. ^ Biography at the Smithsonian "Michael Neufeld - National Air and Space Museum Staff". Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2013-01-24.
  2. ^ LC Authority file
  3. ^ WorldCat
  4. ^ WorldCat
  5. ^ "WR1244 Raketenwissenschaftwissenschaft". Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  6. ^ a b Official biography at the Smithsonian Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine