Alan Lightman
Autor/a de Els Somnis d'Einstein
Sobre l'autor
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee on November 28, 1948. After completing an A.B. at Princeton University in 1970, a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1974, and postdoctoral studies at Cornell University in 1976, he moved directly into academia, teaching astronomy and mostra'n més physics at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1980s, he found a way to combine his literary and scientific interests when he began to write essays about science. He explored astronomy, cosmology, particle physics, space exploration, and the life of a scientist, writing about these topics in a way that makes them understandable to the average reader. Many of his essays can be found in the collections Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipe and A Modern-Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court and Other Essays on Science. He is the author of Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe, which won the Boston Globe's 1991 Critics' Choice award for non-fiction; and is co-author of Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, which received an award from the Association of American Publishers in 1990. In the 1990's, he branched out into fiction, although still with a focus on science. His novels include Einstein's Dreams, Good Benito, and The Diagnosis. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Brian Smith
Obres de Alan Lightman
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers (2005) 291 exemplars
Great Ideas in Physics : The Conservation of Energy, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, The Theory of Relativity and… (1901) 136 exemplars
Living with the Genie: Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery (2003) — Editor — 44 exemplars
Reprisals (Kindle Single) 4 exemplars
Einstein's Dreams 1 exemplars
The Power of Mysteries: A 'This I Believe' Essay 1 exemplars
Harpers: Letters from a French Jihadi 1 exemplars
'The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith' in Harper's Magazine, December 2011 1 exemplars
Great Science Museums: Anything Could Happen 1 exemplars
Obres associades
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (2006) — Col·laborador — 1,092 exemplars
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Col·laborador — 300 exemplars
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Col·laborador — 147 exemplars
Over X-jes, de zandloper en de herenbobbel. Een handleiding tot de kunsten voor Maarten Asscher (1998) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Readings in Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy: Physics 361-01 Cosmology, Spring Semester 1995 (1995) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Lightman, Alan
- Nom oficial
- Lightman, Alan Paige
- Data de naixement
- 1948-11-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA (birth)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Princeton University (1970 | Physics)
California Institute of Technology (1974 | Ph.D. | Theoretical Physics) - Professions
- professor
writer
director (MIT program in writing and humanistic studies)
physicist - Organitzacions
- Harpswell Foundation
Phi Beta Kappa
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Premis i honors
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Bowdoin College | 2005)
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts (Memphis College of Arts | 2006)
Honorary Doctorate of Humanities (University of Maryland | 2006)
Literary Light of the Boston Public Library (1995)
Andrew Gemant Award (1996 | American Institute of Physics) (mostra-les totes 11)
Distinguished Alumni Award (California Institute of Technology | 2003)
Distinguished Arts and Humanities Medal for Literature (Germantown Arts Alliance of Tennessee | 2003)
John P. McGovern Science and Society Award (Sigma Xi | 2006)
Sydney Award (2011, 2016)
Gyorgy Kepes Prize in the Arts (1998) - Biografia breu
- Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Membres
Ressenyes
Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries) de Alan Lightman
Tot i no estar completament d'acord amb l'enfoc i solució als diferents "mons" dels somnis, és innegable que cada plantejament aboca a la reflexió tant per les seves semblances com per les seves diferències i fins i tot acabes trobant paral·lelismes amb la realitat que percebem. I això és lògic ja que per descriure aquests mons només podem fer-ho a través d'allò que coneixem. El resultat és com un rosari d'alternatives que no fan més que suggerir i posar en marxa la nostra imaginació.… (més)
Llistes
Short and Sweet (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 41
- També de
- 14
- Membres
- 9,942
- Popularitat
- #2,395
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 261
- ISBN
- 265
- Llengües
- 20
- Preferit
- 14
