George Johnson (writer)
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| Born | January 20, 1952 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Education | American University (MA) University of New Mexico (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Science writer, journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Writer for The New York Times; author of several books |
| Relatives | Dr. J. E. Johnson (father) & Dorris Matthews Johnson (mother) |
| Website | http://talaya.net |
George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American journalist and science writer.[1]
Work[edit]
Johnson is the author of nine books, including The Cancer Chronicles (2013), The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), and writes for a number of publications, including The New York Times. He is a two-time winner of the science journalism award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His books have been short-listed three times for the Royal Society science book prize. His column, "Raw Data", appeared in The New York Times.[2]
Johnson is one of the co-hosts (with science writer John Horgan) of "Science Faction", a weekly discussion on the website Bloggingheads.tv, related to topics in science. Several prominent scientists, philosophers, and bloggers have been interviewed for the site.
Awards[edit]
His ninth book The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery was on the shortlist for the 2014 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.[3]
Previously shortlisted for the prize were Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (2001)[4] and Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (1995).[5]
In 2014 three of his pieces for The New York Times about the science of cancer won the AAAS Science Journalism Award.[6] He won the award in 2000 for three articles about complexity and high-energy physics.
Bibliography[edit]
- The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery. Knopf, 2013.
- The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. Knopf, 2008.
- Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. James Atlas Books/Norton, 2005, about Henrietta Leavitt
- A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. Knopf, 2003.
- Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics. Knopf, 1999. Vintage paperback, 2000, about Murray Gell-Mann
- Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. Knopf, 1995. Vintage paperback, 1996.
- In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads. Knopf, 1991. Vintage paperback, 1992.
- Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence. Times Books, 1986. Tempus / Microsoft paperback, 1987.
- Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics. Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
References[edit]
- ^ Articles by George Johnson
- ^ "George Johnson - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com.
- ^ Melissa Hogenboom (10 November 2014). "Materials book wins Royal Society Winton Prize". BBC. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ "Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics". talaya.net.
- ^ "Fire in the Mind". talaya.net.
- ^ "AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards".
External links[edit]
- George Johnson's home page
- Interviews/Discussions on Bloggingheads.tv
- New York Times author index page
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