George Johnson (writer)

George Johnson (writer)

Infobox journalist
name = George Johnson


birthname =
birth_date = Birth date and age|1952|1|20|mf=y
birth_place = Fayetteville, Arkansas
education = M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs, American University (1979); B.A. in Journalism with a minor in English, University of New Mexico (1975)
occupation = Science writer, journalist, author
alias =
title =
family =
spouse = Nancy Maret
children =
relatives = father named Dr. J.E. Johnson and mother named Dorris Matthews Johnson
ethnic = Caucasian - U.S. flagicon|U.S.
religion = Agnostic
salary =
networth =
credits = Writer for "The New York Times"; author of several published books; frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv
agent =
URL = http://sciwrite.org/glj/

George Johnson (born January 20, 1952, in Fayetteville, Arkansas) is a science writer [ [http://sciwrite.org/glj/articles.html Articles by George Johnson ] ] and author working from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Currently he is one of the co-hosts (with science writer John Horgan) of "Science Saturday", a weekly discussion related to science topics on the website BloggingHeads.tv.

On Thursday, May 7, 2008, Johnson appeared on the Stephen Colbert show to promote his new book, entitled "The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments". During his appearance, Johnson convinced Colbert to touch the spark produced by one of the electricity experiments. Colbert shocked his hand yelling obscenities that were bleeped out but appeared to be fine after the incident. [ [http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=167602 George Johnson | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central ] ]

Works

* "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.

* "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.

* "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

* [http://talaya.net/ George Johnson's home page]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Johnson,%20George Interviews/Discussions on Bloggingheads.tv]


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