Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine.

Radiative processes in astrophysics
2008
ISBN 9780471827597
The Day that lightning chased the housewife -- and other mysteries of science
1988
ISBN 9780060972639
Ghost
2007
ISBN 9780375421693
Einstein's dreams
1993
ISBN 9780747513780
Problem book in relativity and gravitation
1975
ISBN 9780691177786
The best American essays 2000
2000
ISBN 9780618035809
The diagnosis
2000
ISBN 9780375725500
Living with the Genie: Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery
2003
ISBN 9781559635745
The discoveries
2005
ISBN 9780676977899
Mr g
2011
ISBN 9780307379993
The accidental universe
2013
ISBN 9780307908582
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
2018
ISBN 9781101871867Rostillustrationen und Typografie zur Erzählung "Und immer wieder die Zeit" von Alan Lightman
2004