George Johnson
George Johnson writes regularly about science for The New York Times. He has also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic, Time, Slate, and Wired, and his work has been included in The Best American Science Writing. A former Alicia Patterson fellow, he has received awards from PEN and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and his books were twice finalists for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize.
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Science
978-1-4000-3423-9 (1-4000-3423-X)
March 10, 2009 | $15.95
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most ground-breaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history.
With the attention to detail of a historian and the story-telling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with...
Written by George Johnson
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Science
978-1-4000-3423-9 (1-4000-3423-X)
March 10, 2009 | $15.95
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most ground-breaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history.
With the attention to detail of a historian and the story-telling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
eBook | 208 pages | Vintage | Science
978-0-307-26866-2 (0-307-26866-7)
April 8, 2008 | $15.95
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most ground-breaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history.
With the attention to detail of a historian and the story-telling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with...
Written by George Johnson
eBook | 208 pages | Vintage | Science
978-0-307-26866-2 (0-307-26866-7)
April 8, 2008 | $15.95
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most ground-breaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history.
With the attention to detail of a historian and the story-telling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Science
978-0-7393-5923-5 (0-7393-5923-1)
April 8, 2008 | $17.00
From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed...
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Science
978-0-7393-5923-5 (0-7393-5923-1)
April 8, 2008 | $17.00
From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
Hardcover | 208 pages | Knopf | Science
978-1-4000-4101-5 (1-4000-4101-5)
April 8, 2008 | $25.95
From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed...
Written by George Johnson
Hardcover | 208 pages | Knopf | Science
978-1-4000-4101-5 (1-4000-4101-5)
April 8, 2008 | $25.95
From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed...
A Shortcut Through Time
eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Science - Quantum Theory; Science - Physics
978-0-307-42451-8 (0-307-42451-0)
December 18, 2007 | $16.99
In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable...
Written by George Johnson
eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Science - Quantum Theory; Science - Physics
978-0-307-42451-8 (0-307-42451-0)
December 18, 2007 | $16.99
In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Shortcut Through Time
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Science - Quantum Theory; Science - Physics
978-0-375-72618-7 (0-375-72618-7)
February 10, 2004 | $21.00
In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable...
Written by George Johnson
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Science - Quantum Theory; Science - Physics
978-0-375-72618-7 (0-375-72618-7)
February 10, 2004 | $21.00
In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable...
Also available as an
eBook.
Strange Beauty
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Science - Physics
978-0-679-75688-0 (0-679-75688-4)
October 17, 2000 | $23.00
With a New Afterword
"Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard Feynman
Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with...
Written by George Johnson
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Science - Physics
978-0-679-75688-0 (0-679-75688-4)
October 17, 2000 | $23.00
With a New Afterword
"Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard Feynman
Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with...
Fire in the Mind
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Science; Religion
978-0-679-74021-6 (0-679-74021-X)
September 17, 1996 | $20.00
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at...
Written by George Johnson
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Science; Religion
978-0-679-74021-6 (0-679-74021-X)
September 17, 1996 | $20.00
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at...
In the Palaces of Memory
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Science
978-0-679-73759-9 (0-679-73759-6)
March 3, 1992 | $28.00
Written by George Johnson
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Science
978-0-679-73759-9 (0-679-73759-6)
March 3, 1992 | $28.00
