Thomas Levenson’s work includes books and feature documentaries covering a variety of topics in science, engineering and the history of science. His books include the upcoming Money for Nothing (2020); The Hunt for Vulcan (2015); Newton and the Counterfeiter (2009); Einstein in Berlin (2003); Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science (1995); and Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth (1989).
Television documentaries include Origins: Back to the Beginning (NOVA); Building Big: Domes (PBS); and Einstein Revealed (NOVA) and many others. His freelance writing has appeared widely. He has received support from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Sloan Foundation, among others.
By day, he is Professor of Science Writing at MIT, and has been Head, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Director, Graduate Program in Science Writing. Prior to coming to MIT in 2005, Levenson spent more that two decades as a journalist, a science writer and a documentary film producer, director and writer.
Levenson received a 2016 Guggenheim fellowship and his work has earned the National Academies Science Communication Prize, the AAAS science journalism prize, and has shared a George Foster Peabody Award, among others.
