Minding the Heavens The Story of Our Discovery of the Milky Way

Leila Belkora was born in New York City to an American mother and Moroccan father, and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. She obtained a BA in physics and an MS in engineering physics at Cornell University, and a PhD in astrophysics, specializing in solar radio astronomy, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has since divided her time between science writing and teaching astronomyBelkora, Leila is the author of 'Minding the Heavens The Story of Our Discovery of the Milky Way' with ISBN 9780750307307 and ISBN 0750307307.