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George Johnson

Award-winning Science Journalist, Author of "The Cancer Chronicles"

George Johnson

George Johnson

Award-winning Science Journalist, Author of "The Cancer Chronicles"

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George Johnson Biography

George Johnson writes regularly about science for The New York Times, including the monthly column Raw Data. He has also written for National Geographic, Slate, Discover, Scientific American, Wired, and The Atlantic, and his work has been included in The Best American Science Writing. A former Alicia Patterson fellow, he has received awards from PEN and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and his books were twice finalists for the Royal Society’s book prize. He is a co-host of Science Faction on bloggingheads.tv.

The author of nine books, George Johnson’s most recent work The Cancer Chronicles takes a provocative and intellectually vibrant look at recent advances in the war on cancer. Born out of personal struggle – Johnson’s wife was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer – he plunged himself into a study of the disease, unearthing surprising changes in science’s understanding of the causes of cancer, with dietary and environmental toxins taking a lesser role.

Johnson regularly speaks at universities, scientific associations, and public lecture series. He is co-founder and co-director of The Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop.

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George Johnson Speaking Topics

  • The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

    Science in the twenty-first century has become industrialized. The experiments so often acclaimed in the newspapers—sequencing the genome, proving the existence of the top quark, discovering a new planet by analyzing the wobble of a distant star—cost millions of dollars and research teams that have grown to the size of corporations. But until very recently, the most earthshaking science came from individual pairs of hands. These experiments were designed and conducted with such straightforward elegance that they deserve to be called beautiful. Johnson, author of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, brings us back to the days when a single mind confronting the unknown could uncover a new law of the universe.

  • Jurassic Cancer

    We think of cancer as a modern disease—a scourge of civilization brought on by synthetic chemicals and processed foods. But cancer has been with us since the beginning. In this lecture, George Johnson tells of the first evidence of cancer in prehistoric human ancestors and of a Jurassic period dinosaur with the disease. He shows that cancer, an unfortunate evolutionary tradeoff, is inevitable. We evolved from single-celled creatures, flourishing in the primordial waters, into creatures with trillions of cells—all under tight control. There is always the chance that one of them will break from the pack and revert to its primitive form and start evolving on its own. With a more realistic understanding of cancer, we can celebrate medicine's successes while realizing that there is only so much we can do.

George Johnson Videos

  • George Johnson at the Wistar Institute
    George Johnson at the Wistar Institute
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George Johnson Books

  • The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery (Vintage)
    The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery (Vintage)
  • The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
    The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
  • Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries)
    Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries)
  • A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer
    A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer
  • Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
    Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
  • Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
    Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

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George Johnson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments and Jurassic Cancer. The estimated speaking fee range to book George Johnson for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. George Johnson generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Aaron Ahuvia, Derek B. Lowe, Carson J. Bruns, Jo Marchant and Jo Dunkley. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling George Johnson for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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