Career
Sullivan spent most of his career as a science reporter for the New York Times. Over a 50-year career he covered all aspects of science — Antarctic expeditions, rocket launchings in the late 1950s, physics, chemistry, and geology. He wrote several well-received books, including Assault on the Unknown about the International Geophysical Year.
We are not alone, a bestseller about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Continents in Motion. Black Holes: The Edge of Space, The End of Time.
And Landprints. The American Geophysical Union named its science journalism award after Sullivan.