# Alan Lightman **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** physicist, novelist, and essayist ## Definition **Alan Lightman** is a physicist, novelist, and essayist. At ICE, spoke at the launching conference, served as an ICE fellow, lectured on Fact and Faith, and joined the Nature of Faith at 92Y. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments MIT professor of the practice of the humanities known for Einstein’s Dreams and work on physics, literature, transcendence, and the different epistemic practices of science and religion. ## Relationships - **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** MIT, [[wiki/92NY|92Y]], literature, physics, and [[wiki/Science and Religion|Science and Religion]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/alan-lightman/) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)