Alan Lightman
Sign in to saveAmerican physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 November 1948
- Works
- 42
Top works
- Zeit für die Sterne
- Beauty and the Brain
- Senhor D.
- Los sueños de Einstein
- Yildizlarin Zamani
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Film & TV
Acting · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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.
Known for
- I Wonder — Self2024
- A Trip to Infinity — Self2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 49
- Total plays
- 345
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,687x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 17,808x
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 November 1948
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Memphis
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Rhysling Award
- Doctoral advisor
- Kip S. Thorne
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