- Astrophysicist and author of the bestseller "Einstein's Dreams" (1993). Professor in the 1970s at Harvard, where he studied such phenomena as black holes and distant galaxies; staff scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory in the 1980s. In 1989 he he became a professor of both physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1990 Lightman and Roberta Brawer published "Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists," which won the Most Outstanding Science Book in Physical Science Award from the Association of American Publishers.
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