Marcus Chown
Template:DMCA Template:Short description Marcus Chown (born 1959) is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine.[1]
Biography
He graduated from the Queen Mary University of London in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in physics (first class). In 1982 he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in astrophysics.[2] Chown studied under Richard Feynman at the California Institute of Technology.[3]
His books on astronomy and physics are aimed primarily at the popular market, including Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, for which he was praised for "expressing opaque concepts with a unique clarity".[4]
Bibliography
Popular science
- Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples (1993)
- The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms (1999)
- The Universe Next Door: Twelve Mind-Blowing Ideas from the Cutting Edge of Science (2001) Template:ISBN
- The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science (2007)
- Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe (2007) (published in U.S. as The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe. (2005))
- We Need to Talk About Kelvin (2009) (published in the U.S. as The Matchbox That Ate A Forty-Ton Truck.)
- Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun (2011)
- Solar System for iPad (2010)[5] (a book app)
- Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas (2011) (with Govert Schilling)
- What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff (2013)
- The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that explains everything (2017)
- Big Bang (2018) (illus. Chris Moore)
- Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe (2018)
- The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science (Feb 2023) Template:ISBN
- A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage (June 2024) Template:ISBN
Science Fiction
- Double Planet (with John Gribbin) (novel) Victor Gollancz (1988) Template:ISBN
- Reunion (with John Gribbin) (novel) Gollancz (1991) Template:ISBN
- Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil (2008)
References
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- ^ Green, Graeme (2007) "60 SECONDS: Marcus Chown Script error: No such module "webarchive".", Metro, 18 January 2007, retrieved 2010-03-27
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Marcus Chown Lecture". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.White, C. (June 2013). Interactions (PDF). Institute of Physics. p. 7. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ Trotman, Clive (2008) "Esoteric concepts on relative scale", Otago Daily Times, 5 July 2008, retrieved 2010-03-27
- ^ FABER AND FABER AND TOUCHPRESS PARTNER TO CREATE DIGITAL TITLES FOR iPAD, LAUNCHING WITH SOLAR SYSTEM London, England – November 30, 2010
External links
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