Cosmic Dawn describes a highly interdisciplinary tour of billions of years of cosmic history, an epochal saga drawing on every field of modern science astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and anthropology to address the two most fundamental problems of all: the origins of matter and life. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award, the American Institute of Physics Award, and a National Book Award Nomination. Eric Chaisson is director of the Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University, where he is also professor of physics and professor of education. He is a two-time winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (for Cosmic Dawn and Hubble Wars), and is co-author of Astronomy Today, the nation's most widely used astronomy text book.