New Library of Congress Astrobiology Chair Announced

Historian of science Nathaniel Comfort will begin on October 1, 2015 as the third Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He will be in residence for twelve months. As Astrobiology Chair, Comfort will use the Library’s collections to examine the history of the genomic revolution in origin-of-life research.

The Astrobiology Chair at the Kluge Center is the result of collaboration between the NASA Astrobiology Program and the Library of Congress and is named for Baruch “Barry” Blumberg, the late Kluge Center Scholars Council member, Nobel Laureate and founding director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

The official announcement from the Library of Congress can be viewed at: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2015/15-055.html

To learn more about Astrobiology at NASA visit: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/

To learn about NASA’s Astrobiology Institute visit: 
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/

For information about the Kluge Center visit www.loc.gov/kluge/