Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown is a British physicist and science writer.

Life

After studying physics Chown worked at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Later he began to write scientific and popular articles in journals and books. His first book Afterglow of Creation. From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples in the UK was the most widely read popular science publication by Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Chown is an author and consultant for cosmological questions for the New Scientist. Marcus Chown lives near London.

Publications

  • Afterglow of Creation. From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples. University Science Books, Sausalito, Calif. 1996, ISBN 0-935702-40-7.
  • The Magic Furnace: The search for the origin of atoms. Jonathan Cape, London 1999, ISBN 0-224-04206-8. German: The search for the origin of the atoms. How and by whom the universe was deciphered. Translated from English by Kurt Neff. Matrix, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-28-2.
  • The Universe Next Door: Twelve Mind -blowing ideas from the cutting edge of science. Headline, London 2002, ISBN 0,747,234,965th German: The Universe Next Door. Revolutionary ideas in astrophysics. Translated from English by Susanne Aeckerle. dtv, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3423243650.
  • Quantum Theory Can not Hurt You. A guide to the universe. Faber & Faber, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-571-23546-9. German: Why does God play dice yet. About " schizophrenic atoms" and other oddities of the quantum world. Translated from English by Kurt Neff. dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24484-4 (pp. 1-20, PDF, 268 KB).
  • The Never - Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science. Faber & Faber, London 2007, ISBN 978-057122056-4. German: The universe and the life everlasting. New answers to fundamental questions. Translated from English by Friedrich Griese. dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24712-2 (pp. 1-20, PDF, 276 KB).
  • We Need To Talk About Kelvin. What Everyday Things Tell Us About The Universe. Faber & Faber, London 2009, ISBN 978-0571244010. German: Intelligent Life in the Universe. What we can learn about physics in everyday life. Translated from English by Kurt Neff. dtv, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24802-0.
  • Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons and Other Heavenly Bodies did Orbit Our Sun. Black Dog & Leventhal, New York 2011, ISBN 978-157912885-2. German: The Solar System. A voyage of discovery to all the planets, moons and other celestial bodies that orbit around our sun. Torchbearers, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7716-4501-4.
  • Govert Schilling with: Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas. Faber & Faber, London 2011, ISBN 978-057127843-5. German: tweeting the universe. Short phrases about big ideas. dtv, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3423249553.
  • What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff. Faber & Faber, London, 2013, ISBN 978-0571278398.
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