Philip Ball
Philip Ball | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation | Science writer |
| Notable work | Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another |
| Website | www |
Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal Nature, for which he continues to write regularly.[1] He is a regular contributor to Prospect magazine[2] and a columnist for Chemistry World, Nature Materials, and BBC Future.
Biography
Ball holds a degree in chemistry from
Bristol University
.
Ball's 2004 book mathematical models to social and economic phenomena.[3]
In 2011, Ball published The Music Instinct in which he discusses how we make sense of sound and
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]
Ball is an advocate of the
New York Times, The Guardian, the Financial Times, and New Statesman. In June 2004 he presented a three-part serial on nanotechnology, Small Worlds, on BBC Radio 4
.
Selected Publications
- Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier (1994), ISBN 0-691-00058-1
- Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century (1997), ISBN 0-691-02733-1
- The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (1999), ISBN 0-19-850244-3
- H2O: A Biography of Water (1999), ISBN 0-297-64314-2(published in the U.S. as Life's Matrix)
- Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules (2001), ISBN 978-0-19-285430-8)
- Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (2001), ISBN 0-670-89346-3
- The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements (2002), ISBN 978-0-19-284099-8)
- ISBN 0-434-01135-5
- Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (2005), ISBN 0-85404-674-7
- The Devil's Doctor: ISBN 0-434-01134-7[8]
- The Sun and Moon Corrupted, a novel, ISBN 978-1-84627-108-3
- Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-115429-4
- Shapes, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-923796-8
- Flow, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-923797-5
- Branches, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-923798-2
- The Music Instinct (2010), ISBN 978-1-84792-088-1
- Unnatural, The Heretical Idea of Making People (2011),ISBN 978-1-84792-152-9
- Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science (2012), ISBN 978-3-642-28999-6
- Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything (2013), ISBN 978-0-226-04579-5
- Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler (2014), .
- Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen (2015), University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-23889-0; (2014), Random House[12]
- Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does (2016), ISBN 978-0-226-33242-0
- The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China (2017), ISBN 978-0-226-36920-4
- Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different (2018), ISBN 978-1-84792-457-5
- How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made (2019), ISBN 978-0-00-833177-1
- The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science (2021) ISBN 978-0-262-04441-7
- The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery (2021) ISBN 978-0-500-02453-9
- The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens (2022), ISBN 978-0-226-79587-4 [14]
- How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology (2023)
Awards
Ball's
Ball was awarded the Physics World Book of the Year 2018 for his book Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics Is Different[18] (Bodley Head, 2018)
In 2019 Ball won the
Kelvin Medal and Prize
.
Awarded the Royal Society’s 2022 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal[19] for excellence in a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science.
Ball’s article “Should scientists run the country[20]” won the 2022 award from the Association of British Science Writers[21] for the best Opinion piece
References
- ^ "Philip Ball - Science writer". Philip Ball. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ^ Ball, Philip. "Curse of cursive handwriting". Prospect Magazine. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ Harkin, James. (2004). Critical Mass - How One Thing Leads to Another. The Independent.
- ^ "Music's Mystery". Institute of Art and Ideas. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ "Organisms as Agents of Evolution: New Research Review". templeton.org. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Organisms as Agents of Evolution". templeton.org. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ Ball, Philip. "Engineering light: Pull an image from nowhere". New Scientist. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- Chemical Heritage Magazine. 25 (3): 45. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
- ^ Conrad, Peter (12 February 2011). "Review of Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball". The Guardian.
- Distillations. 1 (4): 44–45. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
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- ^ Vickers, Salley (11 August 2014). "Review of Invisible: The Dangerous Lure of the Unseen by Philip Ball". The Guardian.
- ^ Walter, Patrick (3 December 2019). "Review of How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball". Chemistry World.
- ^ "ISBN Search - The Book of Minds: How to understand ourselves and other beings, from animals to AI to aliens". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books". Royal Society. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ Melissa Hogenboom (10 November 2014). "Materials book wins Royal Society Winton Prize". BBC. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ "Beyond Weird by Philip Ball wins Physics World Book of the Year 2018". Physics World. 17 December 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "ABSW Awards 2022: The winners". Association of British Science Writers. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
