George Johnson

Santa Fe, N.M.

Esther Newberg
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Writer, The New York Times, working on contract from Santa Fe, January 1995 to present.

Staff Editor, The Week in Review, The New York Times, December 1986 to October 1994.

Special Assignment Reporter, The Minneapolis Star, October 1979 to April 1982.

Reporter, The Albuquerque Journal, June 1975 to June 1977.

Co-founder and co-director of The Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop, June 1996 to present.

Finalist for Aventis (formerly Rhone Poulenc) Science Book Prize, 2001 (for "Strange Beauty").

Finalist for Pen Center USA-West Literary Award, 2000 (for "Strange Beauty").

Best American Science Writing 2000, edited by James Gleick.

AAAS Science Journalism Award, 1999.

Finalist for Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, 1997 (for "Fire in the Mind").

Finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1996 (for "Fire in the Mind").

New York Times Publisher's Award, 1991.

Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, 1984.

Special Achievement in Nonfiction, PEN Los Angeles Center, 1984 (for "Architects of Fear").

Best Spot News Story. Albuquerque Press Club, 1976.

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. James Atlas Books/Norton, 2005.

A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. Knopf, 2003.

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics. Knopf, 1999.

Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order Knopf, 1995. Vintage paperback, 1996.

In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads Knopf, 1991. Vintage paperback, 1992.

Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence Times Books, 1986. Tempus / Microsoft paperback, 1987.

Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Science Writer in Residence, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2004.

Science, Technology and Society Lecture; Institute for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; Portland, Oregon, May 2004.

Pittsburgh Sci-Tech Festival; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2004.

Science Writer in Residence, University of Wisconsin; Madison, April 2000.

Parliament of World Religions; Capetown, South Africa, December 1999.

Santa Fe Institute Public Lecture; Santa Fe, N.M., November 1998.

Swedish Association of Science Journalists; lecture during Nobel Week; Stockholm, December 1997.

New York Public Library Center for the Humanities; Celeste Bartos Lecture; New York City, October 1996.

Science, Technology and Society Lecture; Institute for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; Portland, Oregon, December 1995.

Drexel University 100th Anniversary lecture; Philadelphia, 1991.

I also regularly lecture to universities and to science and religious organizations.

M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C., 1979.

B.A. in Journalism with a minor in English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1975.

For more details please see my biographical sketch and list of newspaper and magazine articles.