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George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an
* ''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
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American
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journalist
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and science writer
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Origins
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Work
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", appears in ''The New York Times''. Johnson is one of the co-hosts (with science writerJohn Horgan
John Joseph Horgan (born August 7, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022, and also as the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022. Horgan has been the ...
) of "Science Faction", a weekly discussion on the website Bloggingheads.tv
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, related to topics in science. Several prominent scientists, philosophers, and bloggers have been interviewed for the site.
Awards
His ninth book ''The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery'' was on the shortlist for the 2014Royal Society Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and ...
.
Previously shortlisted for the prize were ''Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics'' (2001) and ''Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order'' (1995).
In 2014 three of his pieces for ''The New York Times'' about the science of cancer won the AAAS Science Journalism Award. He won the award in 2000 for three articles about complexity and high-energy physics.
Bibliography
* ''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
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "computer", tasked with examining photographic plates in order to measu ...
* ''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
Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical ...
* ''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
External links
George Johnson's home page
on Bloggingheads.tv
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