The Northern Lights (American) Alfred A. Knopf Sept 2001 isbn: 0252070798 $24.00 buy

Lucy Jago, November 12

Tuesday, 8pm
Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory
60 Garden, Cambridge
No tickets are required

Here is the true story of an eccentric genius held captive by the allure of celestial splendor; of brushes with death on the remote snowcapped mountains of Norway and in the unforgiving, war torn deserts of Africa; of the rival who cheated Birkeland of a Nobel Prize; and of the brilliant discoveries Birkeland made before his suspicious death in Japan in 1917. Meticulously researched and passionately wrought, The Northern Lights offers an enlightening account of the science behind one of nature's most spectacular displays and a revealing glimpse into the mind of one of history's most passionate and ill-fated scientists.