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William E. Burrows is an American scientist, author and journalist. ==Life== Burrows grew up in Rego Park, NY and graduated from Forest Hills High School. He holds and BA and an MA from Columbia University.〔http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/william-e-burrows/〕 He worked as a reporter for newspapers such as ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Foreign Affairs'',〔http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/william-e-burrows〕 and ''The Wall Street Journal''. In 1970, he moved to Mallorca, Spain where he worked as a travel writer. He moved back to the United States in 1973 and joined the Journalism department at New York University. He was tenured in 1981. In 1983, he founded The Science and Environmental Reporting Program (SERP) of New York University. Burrows specializes in space and national security issues and his latest book is ''The Asteroid Threat''. He published Deep Black, a seminal work on reconnaissance and espionage in 1986. He is the co-founder of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization. He is also Director Emeritus of the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. He is the author of twelve books and numerous articles in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Foreign Affairs'' and other publications. His most recent book, ''The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet From Deadly Near-Earth Objects'', was published on June 10, 2014. Burrows was the only nonscientist on the National Research Council's Near-Earth Object Survey and Detection Panel. In recognition of his distinguished career and expertise, NASA has named a Main Belt asteroid after him, and he is a recipient of the American Astronautical Society John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award, among other honors. He is divorced and has one daughter, Lara Julie Burrows, a physician. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William E. Burrows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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