Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson

male, 57 years old
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, American non-fiction outdoors writer, English non-fiction outdoors writer, English, Order of the British Empire, Iowa writer…AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, Science writer
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, (born December 8,1951) is a best-selling American-born author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on...
Philip Ball

Philip Ball

male, 47 years old
Oxford University, journalist, Science writer, nature, English, Bristol University…AventisPrizeforScienceBooks
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol...
Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

male, 68 years old
meme, atheist, The Selfish Gene, Atheist activist, British, British atheist…Science writer, popular science, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles...
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
black holes, Quantum Gravity, theoretical physics, physicist, agnostic, cosmology…Adams Prize recipient, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, Science writer, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Robert Winston

Robert Winston

male, 69 years old
Labour Party politician, Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, Alumni of Queen Mary, University of London, politician, Politics of the United Kingdom
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (born July 15, 1940) is a British, doctor scientist, politician, and television presenter.
Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

male, 72 years old
author, Guns, Germs, and Steel, collapse, Evolutionary biologist, Pulitzer Prize winner, geography…National Medal of Science, National Medal of Science recipient, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winner, pulitzer prize
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works...
Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould

male, deceased (2002)
Evolutionary biologist, writer, scientist, Jewish American, Books by Stephen Jay Gould, Essayist…Science writer, Historian of science, popular science, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also...
Nigel Calder

Nigel Calder

male, 77 years old
The Great Global Warming Swindle, global warming skeptic, global warming, Old Merchant Taylor, Kalinga Prize, Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science…The Aventis Prizes for Science Books, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, popular science, Kalinga Prize winner, Science writer
Nigel Calder (born December 2 1931) is a British science writer. Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine "New Scientist", serving as...
Armand Marie Leroi

Armand Marie Leroi

male, 45 years old
channel 4, Guardian First Book Award, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, Caenorhabditis elegans, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Irvine alumni
Armand Leroi was born in Wellington, New Zealand on the 16 July 1964. A Dutch citizen, his youth was spent in New Zealand, South Africa and Canada....
Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

male, 78 years old
scientist, cosmology, University of Oxford, Erdős number 3, recreational mathematics, general relativity…Science writer, Adams Prize recipient, AventisPrizeforScienceBooks, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the...