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July 30, 2006
Marcus Chown, Award-Winning Science Writer, 7-26-06
Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly popular science magazine New Scientist. His latest book, The Quantum Zoo, was published in March by Joseph Henry Press.
Marcus's first popular science book, Afterglow of Creation, was published to much acclaim in 1994. In Britain, it was runner-up for the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science book prize and liked enough by the magazine Focus to buy 180,000 copies for its readers, making it the most-read popular science book after Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
Marcus's second popular science book, The Magic Furnace, was published in Britain in the Fall of 1999. In Japan, it was chosen as one of the Books of the Year by Asahi Shimbun, the world's biggest newspaper. His third popular science book, The Universe Next Door, was published in Spring 2002. "An exuberant book—a parallel universe where science is actually fun," said the UK’s Independent newspaper.
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