Books by Avi Loeb

About

Abraham (Avi) Loeb, the author of four books and over 700 scientific papers, is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2012, Time selected him as one of the twenty-five most influential people in space. He is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University, chair of Harvard's department of astronomy, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also chairs the advisory committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, serves as the science theory director for all initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, and is chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the National Academies.