George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American journalist and science writer.

[1] Johnson is the author of nine books, including The Cancer Chronicles (2013), The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), and writes for a number of publications, including The New York Times.

His column, "Raw Data", appeared in The New York Times.

Several prominent scientists, philosophers, and bloggers have been interviewed for the site.

[3] Previously shortlisted for the prize were Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (2001)[4] and Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (1995).