Alan Lightman

Person · Open Library

Born

28 November 1948

Works

42

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1948

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

49

Total plays

345

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

   · 2013 · cited 34,687x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,639x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,944x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,517x

5. DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

   · 2018 · cited 17,808x

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Quotes

• “The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy.”

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Official website

Writing and Communication Center (WCC) – MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing

MIT's Writing and Communication Center offers free individual consultation to all members of the MIT community.

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Wikidata facts

Official website

writing.mit.edu/people/faculty/homepage/lightman

Image

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