- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. - Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer is a popular science writer and weblogger, especially regarding the study of evolution and parasites. He has written several books and contributes science essays to publications such as "The New York Times" and "Discover". - Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", … - Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely-read writers of popular science of his generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate". Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. - Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Matt Ridley
Matthew (Matt) Ridley (born February 7, 1958 at Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English science writer. He received a doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford before commencing a career in science journalism. Ridley worked as a science correspondent for The Economist and The Daily Telegraph. - John Gribbin
John R. Gribbin (b. 1946) is a British science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. - Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. - George Johnson
George Johnson (born January 20, 1952, in Fayetteville, Arkansas) is a science writer working from Santa Fe, New Mexico. - Chris Mooney
Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20 1977), better known as Chris Mooney is an American journalist who focuses on science in politics. He is Washington correspondent for "Seed", a senior correspondent for "The American Prospect" and occasional contributor to many other scientific and newsmagazines. He additionally maintains a weblog, "The Intersection", and gives public lectures. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal "Nature" for over 10 years. - Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh (born 1964) is an Indian-British author of Punjabi background with a doctorate in physics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who has specialized in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being Tom Singh the founder of the UK New Look chain of stores. His written works include "Fermat's Last Theorem" (in the United States, … - Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the author of such books as "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" (2005) and "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" (2003). She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and currently resides in San Francisco, California. Roach has written for Vogue, "The New York Times Magazine", "Discover", "Outside", "Reader's Digest", "GQ", and other periodicals. - Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is the best-selling author of twelve books, including "Coming of Age in the Milky Way", for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize, and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Ferris produced the Voyager phonograph record, an artifact of human civilization containing music, sounds of Earth and encoded photographs launched aboard the Voyager interstellar spacecraft. - Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. - Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University. Born in New York City, Greene was a prodigy in mathematics. His skill in mathematics was such that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. - James Gleick
James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of them have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages. - Bill Bryson
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 the English language and on scientific subjects. He has lived for most of his adult life in England. - Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Her works include: * "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" (1995) - the genius in question was John Harrison, … - Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner (b. October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic (conjuring), pseudoscience, literature (especially Lewis Carroll), philosophy, and religion. He wrote the "Mathematical Games" column in "Scientific American" from 1956 to 1981 and has published over 60 books. - Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is a professor of genetics at Galton laboratory of University College London. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology, especially evolution. He is one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution. His popular writing shows a wry, sometimes rather dark, sense of humour. In 1996 his writing won him the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize ``for his numerous, … - Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum (born October 19 1954) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a science writer for the "Sacramento Bee", Blum (rhymes with "gum") wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars", the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. - Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher. - Daniel Terdiman
Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including "Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech to the web to sports. He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, … - Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart, FRS (born 1945), is a professor of mathematics at University of Warwick, United Kingdom. - Nicholas Wade
Nicholas Wade is a British-born scientific reporter, editor and author who currently writes for the Science Times section of "The New York Times". Wade was born in Aylesbury, England and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. Wade has been a correspondent, based in Washington, and deputy editor, based in London, of the journal "Nature." He also reported from Washington for the journal "Science." He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. - Mark Buchanan
Mark Buchanan (born October 31, 1961, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science "Nature", and the popular science magazine "New Scientist". He has been a guest columnist for the "New York Times", and currently writes a monthly column for the journal "Nature Physics". Buchanan's books and articles typically explore ideas of modern physics, … - Margaret Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics. These books include "Pythagoras' Trousers", a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet". - Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder (born December 2 1931) is a British science writer. Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine "New Scientist", serving as editor from 1962 to 1966. Since that time, he has worked as an independent author and TV screenwriter. He has conceived and scripted thirteen major documentaries and series on popular science subjects broadcast by the BBC and Channel 4 (London), with accompanying books. - Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures. He was the first director of UNESCO, founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, and was knighted in 1958. Huxley came from the distinguished Huxley family. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, … - Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25 1913 - December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He was invited to write regular essays in the "New England Journal of Medicine", … - Colin Tudge
Colin Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a British science writer. A biologist by training, he is the author of numerous works on food, agriculture, genetics, and species diversity. His publications include "Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers", a small book explaining how agriculture began. The book is one of a series of long essays by respected contemporary Darwinian thinkers, … - Tim Flannery
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media. - Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god. Druyan wrote the books "Comet" and "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", as well as sections of "The Demon-Haunted World", … - Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post" in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. - Henry Gee
Henry Gee (b. 1962 in London, England) is a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a senior editor of "Nature," the scientific journal. Henry Gee's books include "In Search of Deep Time," "A Field Guide to Dinosaurs" with illustrations by Luis Rey, "Jacob's Ladder," and "The Science of Middle-Earth." Gee's other writings include two works of open source fiction, "The Sigil" and "By The Sea." - Jonathan Weiner
Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment. Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Science for his book "The Beak of the Finch". - Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan (b. 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American science writer. He has written and co-authored many books on evolution, most recently "Into the Cool", co-authored with Eric D.Schneider, on the subject of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. His younger brother is Jeremy Sagan and his half-brother is Nick Sagan.
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