Shelf life: Alan Lightman
Jun 1, 2005
The novelist and educator Alan Lightman trained as a physicist and is now adjunct professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He has written four novels: Einstein's Dreams (1993), Good Benito (1995), The Diagnosis (2000) and Reunion (2003).
His latest collection of essays is A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (Pantheon 2005).
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