Official website (http://writing.mit.edu/people/faculty/homepage/lightman)
Alan Lightman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Alan Paige Lightman, Alan P. Lightman
American 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 34,824x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,129x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,832x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,608x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 18,233x
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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
- 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
- Field of work
- astrophysics
- Official website
- writing.mit.edu/people/faculty/homepage/lightman
- Image
- Alanlightman.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-11-28
- member of
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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