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James Gleick published Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987. This work introduced the concept of the butterfly effect to millions of readers who had never heard of chaos theory before.
Pantheon Books released Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman in 1992. This biography detailed the life of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his unconventional teaching methods.
The text covered everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern computer networks and received the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012. The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books also honored the volume that same year.
Gleick partnered with business associate Uday Ivatury to license the software to other ISPs. They distributed licenses across the United States and overseas markets.
Ice had built up inside the engine's carburetor causing power loss during descent when James Gleick attempted to land his Rutan Long-EZ experimental plane at Greenwood Lake Airport. The aircraft landed short of the runway into rising terrain near West Milford, New Jersey and killed his eight-year-old son Harry.