Mark Buchanan

Mark Buchanan ( born October 31, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physicist and author.

He studied theoretical physics at the University of Virginia, USA, where he also received his doctorate in 1993. As of 1995, living in Britain, he worked as a science writer and editor for the journal Nature, then for the popular science magazine New Scientist. He currently writes a monthly column for the journal Nature Physics.

Today Buchanan is a freelance writer in Normandy in France. He has published four books.

It is not identical with the same name living in Canada and also a writer make Pastor Mark Buchanan.

Works (selection)

  • The grain of sand that makes the earth quake. The law of disasters on the trail or why the world is simpler than we think ( " Ubiquity "). Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-593-37697-0.
  • Small worlds. The universe is too small for coincidences ( " Nexus "). Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-593-36801-3.
  • Why the rich get richer and your neighbor looks like you. New insights from the social physics ( "The social atom" ). Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38456-6.
  • Physicist ( 20th century)
  • Physicist ( 21st century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1961
  • Man
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