George Johnson
Science Writer
George Johnson has written about science for The New York Times for more than twenty-five years and is a two-time winner of the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His work has also appeared in National Geographic Magazine, Scientific American, Wired, Discover, The Atlantic, Slate, Tricycle, and other publications.
His books have been translated into twenty languages, and three of them were shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. He is the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science & Religion and has been Science Writer in Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Santa Barbara, California. In recent years he has been a New York Times Expert on educational trips to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and to Chernobyl, as well as an expedition to Argentina and Chile to see a total solar eclipse.
At home in New Mexico, Johnson has been co-founder and co-director of the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop.
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