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Authors: George Johnson
George Johnson has written about science for
The New York Times
,
National Geographic Magazine
,
Slate
,
Scientific American
,
Wired
,
The Atlantic
, and other publications. His nine books, which are being translated into fifteen languages, include
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
and
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
. He has twice been a finalist for the Royal Society’s science book prize. A winner of the AAAS Science Journalism Award, he is codirector of the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop and a former Alicia Patterson fellow. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and can be found on the Web at talaya.net.
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads
Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence
Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics
