american science writers

Lewis Thomas

American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher

Carl Sagan

American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator

Norman Mailer

American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor

Douglas R. Hofstadter

American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics