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Michael J. Neufeld

Michael J. Neufeld
Neufeld in 2013
Born (1951-07-07) July 7, 1951 (age 74)
Edmonton, Alberta
EducationUniversity of Calgary (BA)
University of British Columbia (MA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA, PhD)
Occupations
Spouse(s)
Sheila Weiss
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(m. 1983⁠–⁠1992)​

Karen Levenback
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(m. 1994)​

Michael John Neufeld (born July 7, 1951)[1] is a Canadian 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.[2]

Biography

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Neufeld was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1951.[3][dead link] He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Calgary, and a Master of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1976 with his thesis "He who will not work, neither shall he eat": German social democratic attitudes to labor, 1890-1914.[4] He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1984 with the dissertation From artisans to workers: the transformation of the skilled metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905.[5]

Since the 1990s, Neufeld has written several works about Wernher von Braun.[6]

Books

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Books written

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  • The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
  • The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: Free Press, 1995. The book won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics's History Manuscript Award, and the Society for the History of Technology's Dexter Prize.[7]
    • Translated into German by Jens Wagner as Die Rakete und das Reich: Wernher von Braun, Peenemünde und der Beginn des Raketenzeitalters. ISBN 9783894881177
    • Review by Kees Gispen, Central European History. 31, no. 4, (1998): 474.
  • Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2007. The book won the Organization of American Historians's Leopold Prize, and the American Astronautical Society's Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature.[7]
    • Translated into German as Wernher von Braun: Visionär des Weltraums, Ingenieur des Krieges.
    • Translated into Danish as Wernher von Braun: krigsingeniør og rumfartsvisionær.
    • Translated into Polish as Von Braun: [inżynier nazistów i Amerykanów].

Books edited

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "Neufeld, Michael J. 1951-". Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ Biography at the Smithsonian "Michael Neufeld - National Air and Space Museum Staff". Archived from the original on April 24, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
  3. ^ LC Authority file
  4. ^ Neufeld, Michael John (1976). He who will not work, neither shall he eat" : German Social Democratic attitudes to labor, 1890-1914 (Thesis). University of British Columbia. doi:10.14288/1.0093809.
  5. ^ Neufeld, Michael John (1989). "The skilled metalworkers of Nuremberg : craft and class in the Industrial Revolution".
  6. ^ "WR1244 Raketenwissenschaftwissenschaft". June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  7. ^ a b Official biography at the Smithsonian Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine