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BY
THOMAS
LEVENSON
The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
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Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science
Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
About the Author
THOMAS LEVENSON is a professor and director of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. He has written four previous books and has produced, written, and/or directed more than a dozen long-form science documentaries for PBS, the BBC, and other broadcasters. He has recieved the National Academies Communication Award, shared a Peabody Award, and won the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award, among other honors. Long, long ago in an intellectual galaxy far away, he studied East Asian Studies at Harvard University, and now lives about two miles from the scenes of his undergraduate indiscretions with his wife, Katha Seidman, and the apple of his eye, Henry.
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