| LC control no. | n 79063644 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3562.I45397 |
| Personal name heading | Lightman, Alan P., 1948- |
| Variant(s) | Lajtman, Alan, 1948- Lightman, Alan Paige, 1948- |
| Other standard no. | 0000000121202566 0000-0002-7180-9697 |
| Associated place | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1948-11-28 |
| Place of birth | Memphis (Tenn.) |
| Field of activity | Physics Poetry Social entrepreneurship |
| Affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harpswell Foundation |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Poets Philanthropists |
| Found in | Problem book in relativity and gravitation, 1975. His Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe, 1984: CIP t.p. (Alan Lightman) book t.p. (Alan P. Lightman) His Great ideas in physics, c1992: t.p. (Alan Lightman) Reunion, 2003: CIP t.p. (Alan Lightman) publisher info (born in Memphis, Tenn. in 1948; educated at Princeton and the California Institute of Technology; previous works include three novels, a collection of essays and fables, and several books on science) Wikipedia article, April 26, 2016: (born Nov. 28, 1928 in Memphis, Tenn.; professor of the practice of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; graduated from White Station high school in Memphis; AB in physics in 1970, Princeton University; PhD in theoretical physics in 1974, California Institute of Technology; assistant professor of astronomy, Harvard University, 1976-1979; research scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1979-1989; in 1989, appointed joint professor of science and writing and senior lecturer in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; has worked to combine science and the humanities in a number of ways; in 2003 founded the nonprofit Harpswell Foudnation, dedicated to founding a new generation of women leaders in Cambodia and the developing world, and he continues to be chair of its board) Ajnštajnovite sništa, 2004: t.p. (Alan Lajtman) The miraculous from the material, 2024: ECIP title page (Alan Lightman) |
| Associated language | eng |
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