Editing Lee Smolin (section)

==Awards and honors==
Smolin was named as #21 on [[Foreign Policy (magazine)|''Foreign Policy'']] magazine's list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals.<ref>[https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4379 "Top 100 Public Intellectuals: The Final Rankings"] ''[[Foreign Policy Magazine]]'' (June 27, 2008)</ref> He is also one of many physicists dubbed the "New [[Einstein]]" by the media.<ref>[[John Brockman (literary agent)|Brockman, John]]. "Introduction" to Kauffman, Stuart and Smolin, Lee. [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin/smolin_p1.html "A Possible Solution For The Problem Of Time In Quantum Cosmology"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101202114/https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin/smolin_p1.html |date=2019-01-01 }} on ''[[Edge (magazine)|Edge]]'' (April 7, 1997)</ref> ''[[The Trouble with Physics]]'' was named by ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine as number 17 on a list of 50 "Books for our Time", June 27, 2009. In 2007 he was awarded the [[Majorana Prize]] from the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, and in 2009 the [[Klopsteg Memorial Award]] from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for "extraordinary accomplishments in communicating the excitement of physics to the general public," He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Physical Society. In 2014 he was awarded the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for a work published in collaboration with Marina Cortês.<ref>[http://www.buchaltercosmologyprize.org/#announcements Announcement]: First Prize for Dr. Marina Cortês, Dr. Lee Smolin	[[arxiv:1307.6167|The Universe as a Process of Unique Events]], Phys. Rev. '''D''' 90, 084007 (2014)[http://www.buchaltercosmologyprize.org/#announcements]</ref>