Career
A native of Buffalo, New York, he started his career as a newspaper man in Pittsburgh. There he was a correspondent for Time magazine. From 1953 to 1955, he was an editor and contributor to Scientific American.
Lessing is the author of three books, Manitoba of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong (1956), Understanding Chemistry (1957), and deoxyribonucleic acid: at the core of life itself (1967).
He was for some time on the editorial board of Fortune magazine and was a vigorous opponent of government interference with and distortion of scientific fact (see, for instance, his essay "In Defense of Science", and "Manitoba of High Fidelity").
