Thompson, Dick

Dick Thompson is an award-winning correspondent for Time Magazine who has reported from the Washington Bureau since 1986. He has covered science, medicine, space and the environment for Time since 1978 from such places as the Amazon, the Soviet Union, India and Los Alamos. Thompson has also covered the White House, Congress, the Panama Invasion, the Gulf War, and the battle for Kabul, Afghanistan. He was a science fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985-86. Thompson and his wife Kristen reside in Arlington, Virginia.