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Brown University
Expository Writing Program, Department of English
presents:
Great Writers Lecture Series
Writing the Science Narrative
Einstein Lecture
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Alan Lightman
Professor of Humanities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday
November 16, 2005
6:30 pm
Salomon Center 001
Alan Lightman is known, among other things, for his writing on what might
be called the "mind of science." His articles, essays, short fiction, and
reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Discover,
Exploratorium, Granta, Harper's, Harvard Magazine, The New Yorker, The New
York Review of Books, The New York Times, Science 82 and 86, The Sciences,
Smithsonian Magazine, Story, Technology Review, and World Monitor. His
fiction includes Einstein's Dreams (1993), Good Benito (1995), The Diagnosis
(2000), and Reunion (2003). His books on science include A Sense of the
Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (2004), Origins: the Lives and
Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (with R. Brawer) (1990), Ancient Light: Our
Changing View of the Universe (1991), Great Ideas in Physics (1992, new
edition in 2000), Time for the Stars: Astronomy for the 1990s (1992).
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The Great Writers Lecture Series is made possible through generous contributions
from the Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund, the Zucker Family
Endowment, the Goldway/Shearer family, the Dean of the College, the Department
of Physics, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Literary Arts
Program, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research, the Department of Modern
Culture and Media, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Africana Studies
Department, and the Department of Hispanic Studies.
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