Alan Lightman,
Professor of Humanities, MIT
November 16 , 6:30pm
Solomon Center 001

"Writing the Science Narrative"

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).

http://www.physics2005.org/

Co-sponsored with the English Department as part of the Expository Writing Program: 'The Great Writer's Series'