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George Johnson

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January 20, 1952

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George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American journalist and science writer. He is the author of a number of books, including The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), and writes for a number of publications, including The New York Times.

He is one of the co-hosts (with science writer John Horgan) of "Science Saturday", a weekly discussion on the website Bloggingheads.tv, related to topics in science. Several prominent scientists, philosophers, and bloggers have been interviewed for the site.

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Average rating: 3.55 · 528 ratings · 126 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments 3.34 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George Johnson, Edward Kastenmeier (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe 3.60 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer 3.62 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Architects of Fear 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	I Dieci Esperimenti Più Belli: Da Galileo A Millikan 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Machinery of Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On the Diseases of the Kidney: Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment (1852) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: