Alan Lightman

American physicist, writer, and novelist (born 1948)

Alan Paige Lightman (born November 28, 1948) is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine. Lightman was one of the first persons at MIT to hold a joint faculty position in both the sciences and the humanities.

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