Mr.
Paul Hoffman
Liberty Science Center
Writer; Company executive
Area
Leadership, Policy, and Communications
Specialty
Journalism, Media, and Communications
Elected
2000
Runs the largest interactive science center in the New York metropolitan area. Also a writer who profiles singularly brilliant people, chiefly scientists, who are passionate and obsessive about what they do. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers was a biography of the peripatetic mathematician Paul Erdos who pursued the truths of numbers 20 hours a day. Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Cult of the Flying Machine was about the history of flight before the Wright brothers.
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