Joseph E. Harmon

Joseph E. Harmon was a science writer, editor, and manager for over four decades in several divisions within Argonne National Laboratory and is now a divisional emeritus. In 2024, he received the Board of Governors Outstanding Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of Chicago on Argonne employees in nonscientific or operational roles. As an independent scholar, he has co-authored six scholarly books on scientific communication with the late Alan G. Gross. Harmon and Gross won Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication from the National Council of Teachers of English for The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Their most recent book, The Many Voices of Modern Physics (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), features an afterword by Randy Allen Harris, offering a reflective survey of Harmon and Gross’s collective contributions to the field of science communication. Harmon is also author of numerous scholarly articles on the topic. For more biographical details, view the About page.