George Johnson

George Johnson writes about science for The New York Times, Scientific American, and other publications from Santa Fe, New Mexico. His most recent books are "Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe" and "A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer." Others include "Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics" and "Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order," which were finalists for the Aventis and Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prizes.

A winner of the AAAS Science Journalism Award, he is co-director of the Santa Fe Science-Writing Workshop and a former Alicia Patterson fellow. A graduate of the University of New Mexico and American University, his first reporting job was covering the police beat for the Albuquerque Journal. He has been a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and an editor of the Week in Review section of The New York Times. He can be found on the Web at talaya.net.