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Thomas Levenson is an American academic, science writer and documentary film -maker. As of 2012, he is Professor of Science Writing and director of the graduate program in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written six books: Ice Time: Climate, Science and Life on Earth; Measure for Measure: A Musical History ...
Thomas Levenson is a professor at MIT and head of its science writing program. He is the author of several books, including Einstein in Berlin and Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist. His most recent book, The Hunt for Vulcan, is now available for order in paperback.
Tom Levenson is Professor of Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching mostly in the Graduate Program in Science Writing. He is currently at work on a new book, Money for Nothing, June, 2020, on the South Sea Bubble, the Scientific Revolution, and the birth of the modern idea of money.
Newton & the Counterfeiter. In 1695, Isaac Newton made a shocking career change, leaving Cambridge University, the site of his greatest discoveries, to move to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty's Mint. There he confronted a genius of another kind, the virtuoso counterfeiter, William Chaloner. The epic game of cat and mouse ...
Nov 29, 2015 · In The Hunt for Vulcan, author Thomas Levenson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores one glaring error that was taken as fact for more than 50 years: the belief...
Nov 3, 2015 · Matthew Price of The Boston Globe reviews “The Hunt for Vulcan” by Prof. Thomas Levenson, which chronicles the history of the search for the non-existent planet Vulcan. “The key question, as Levenson puts it, is ‘what happens when a prediction fails to find its match in nature?’” writes Price.
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Students. Alumni. Thomas Levenson. Thomas Levenson is a Professor of Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Levenson has written five books on science and the history of science: 1989’s Ice Time: Climate Science and Life on Earth, 1994’s Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science, 2003’s Einstein in Berlin ...
