Astrobiology (general)

What's In A Name: The Etymology Of Astrobiology

By Keith Cowing

Press Release

astro-ph.EP

April 23, 2020

Filed under astrobiology

What's In A Name: The Etymology Of Astrobiology — Astrobiology

NASA

Astrobiology has been gaining increasing scientific prominence and public attention as the search for life beyond Earth continues to make significant headway on multiple fronts. In view of these recent developments, the fascinating and dynamic etymology of astrobiology is elucidated, and thus shown to encompass a plethora of vivid characters drawn from different continents, religions, ideologies and centuries.

Manasvi Lingam, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 9 pages; 0 figures
Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:2004.11312 [physics.hist-ph] (or arXiv:2004.11312v1 [physics.hist-ph] for this version)
Submission history
From: Manasvi Lingam
[v1] Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:45:31 UTC (16 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11312
Astrobiology

Keith Cowing

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻

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