Dr John Gribbin's Biography

Dr John Gribbin's Professional Career

Career

Nature magazine 1970-75, visiting fell Social Policy Research Unit 1975-78, physics conslt New Scientist 1978-98, visiting fell in astronomy Univ of Sussex 1998-; FRAS, FRMetS, FRSL, FRSA

Dr John Gribbin's Publications

Books and Publications

Non-Fiction incl: Genesis: The origins of man and the universe (1981), In Search of Schrodinger's Cat (1984), In Search of the Double Helix (1985), In search of the Big Bang (1986), The Omega Point: The search for the missing mass, and the ultimate fate of the universe (1987), The One Per Cent Advantage (with Mary Gribbin, 1988), The Hole in the Sky (1988), Cosmic Coincidences: Dark matter, mankind and anthropic cosmology (with Martin Rees, 1989), Hothouse Earth: The Greenhouse Effect and Gaia (1990), Children of the Ice (with Mary Gribbin, 1990), Blinded by the Light: The secret life of the sun (1991), The Matter Myth (with Paul Davies, 1991), Stephen Hawking: A life in science (with Michael White, 1992), In Search of the Edge of Time: Black holes, wormholes and time machines (1992), In the Beginning: The birth of the living universe (1993), Albert Einstein: A Life in Science (with Michael White, 1993), Being Human (with Mary Gribbin, 1993), Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality (1995), Darwin: A life in science (with Michael White, 1995), Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (1997), Origins (1997), Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics (1998), Almost Everyone's Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything (1998), The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe (1999), What's the Big Idea? Chaos and Uncertainty (with Mary Gribbin, 1999), Deep Space (1999), The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything (1999), Stardust (with Mary Gribbin, 2000), Ice Age (with Mary Gribbin, 2001), The First Chimpanzee (2001), Space: Our Final Frontier (2001), Science: A History (2002), The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (with Mary Gribbin, 2003), The Men who Measured the Universe (with Mary Gribbin, 2004), Deep Simplicity (2004), Big Numbers (with Mary Gribbin, 2004), The Fellowship: the story of a revolution (2005), The Universe: A Biography (2007), Flower Hunters (with Mary Gribbin, 2008); Fiction Double Planet (with Marcus Chown, 1988), Father to the Man (1989), Reunion (with Marcus Chown, 1991), Ragnarok (with David Compton, 1991), Innervisions (1993)

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