Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman, a physicist, teaches at MIT. His latest book is The Diagnosis. (May 2002)

From the Review

November 7, 2002: Critical Mass Explained (letter)

May 23, 2002: Megaton Man

Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller, with Judith L. Shoolery

April 10, 1997: The Contradictory Genius

Albert Einstein: A Biography by Albrecht Fölsing, translated by Ewald Osers

December 17, 1992: The One and Only

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

February 13, 1992: Inside the Box

The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context by Timothy Ferris

Books by Alan Lightman

Reunion (2003)
Great Ideas in Physics (2000)
The Diagnosis (2000)
Great Ideas in Physics (1997)
Dance for Two: Selected Essays (1996)
Ai-Yin-Ssu-Tan Ti Meng (1994)
Good Benito (1994)
Einstein's Dreams (1993)
Time for the Stars: Astronomy in the 1990s (1992)
Great Ideas in Physics (1992)
Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe (1991)
Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (1990)
A Modern Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court: And Other Essays on Science (1988)
A Modern Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court: And Other Essays on Science (1986)
Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipe (1984)