- Feb 5, 2002
- 166,617
- 56,253
- Country
- United States
- Faith
- Catholic
- Marital Status
- Married
- Politics
- US-Others
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno is the director of the Vatican Observatory. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and masters’ degrees from MIT and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the U.S. Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989. Brother Guy’s research explores connections between meteorites, asteroids and the evolution of small solar system bodies. He has observed Kuiper Belt objects with the Vatican’s 1.8 meter telescope in Arizona and measured meteorite physical properties to understand asteroid origins and structure.
At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, Brother Consolmagno was appointed its director in 2015 by Pope Francis.
Continued below.
www.oursundayvisitor.com
At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, Brother Consolmagno was appointed its director in 2015 by Pope Francis.
Charlie Camosy: You’ve written yet another great book! This one is titled “When Science Goes Wrong: Desire and the Search for Truth.” What led to your writing this topic?
Continued below.
Can both science and faith go wrong?
Brother Guy Consolmagno discusses his new book "When Science Goes Wrong: Desire and the Search for Truth."
www.oursundayvisitor.com
