Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman (born 1948) is a physicist, novelist, and essayist from Memphis, Tennessee.
He earned a bachelor's degree in physics magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1970 where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech in 1974.
He currently teaches at MIT.
Bibliography
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- A Modern Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court, 1986
- Einstein's Dreams, 1993
- Good Benito, 1994
- The Diagnosis, 2002, about the modern insatiable need for speed.
His fiction, essays, and academic articles have appeared in national periodicals and science journals.
External links
- Lightman's Website at MIT (http://mit.edu/humanistic/www/faculty/lightman.html)Template:US-bio-stub