Philip Ball

Philip Ball ( born October 8, 1962) is an English chemist, physicist and author of popular science books. He worked about 20 years for the journal Nature. Ball studied chemistry at Oxford University and a doctorate in physics at the University of Bristol.

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Works

  • The Devil 's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science ( 2006), ISBN 0-434-01134-7
  • Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry ( 2005), ISBN 0-85404-674-7
  • The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements (2002), ISBN 0-19-284100-9 ( republished as The Elements: A Very Short Introduction )
  • Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (2001), ISBN 0-670-89346-3
  • Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules (2001), ISBN 0-19-280214-3 ( republished as Molecules: A Very Short Introduction )
  • H2O: A Biography of Water (1999), ISBN 0-297-64314-2 (published in the U.S. as Life 's Matrix) in German: H2O - Biography of the water, Piper Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-492-04156-6.
  • The Self - Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (1999), ISBN 0-19-850244-3
  • Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century (1997), ISBN 0-691-02733-1
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