Michael Groß (Author)
Michael Groß (* 1963 in Kirn ) is a German-English science journalist and book author.
Life
Michael Groß studied chemistry in Marburg and Regensburg , where he received his doctorate in 1993. He then researched the biophysical chemistry of proteins at the Oxford Center for Molecular Sciences until 2000 . During this time he wrote science journalistic articles for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and for Spektrum der Wissenschaft , among others .
He has been a full-time freelance science journalist in Oxford since 2000 and regularly writes articles for the spectrum of science , chemistry in our time and news from chemistry , as well as for English-language magazines such as Chemistry World , Current Biology and Chemistry & Industry .
He is the author of several popular science books, most of which he has written in both English and German. Some of his texts have also been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
In March 2014 he received the GDCh Prize for Journalists and Writers from the Society of German Chemists (GDCh).
Publications (selection)
- 1995 Expeditions into the nanocosmos , Birkhäuser Verlag
- 1997 Eccentric of Life, Spectrum Academic Publishing House
- 2002 What Biotronik can do (with Claudia Borchard-Tuch), Wiley-VCH
- 2009 Platypus' Kiss, Wiley-VCH
- 2011 9 million bikes on the edge of the universe, Wiley-VCH
- 2012 Of geckos, yarn and gold water: Greetings from the nanoworld. Wiley-VCH
- 2012 Astrobiology for Beginners (with Kevin W. Plaxco). Wiley-VCH
- 2014 The raccoon invasion and other expeditions into the wild. Wiley-VCH
- My path to science journalism. In: Chemistry in Our Time. Volume 48, 2014, pp. 68-71, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.201400659 .
Reviews
- Eccentrics of Life : Die Zeit, July 4, 1997 (Reviewer: Peter Buechler), Spectrum of Science, 12/1997 (Reviewer: Helmut Koenig)
- Life on the Edge : Nature (May 21, 1998), New Scientist (August 15, 1998), Trends in Biotechnology , Trends in Microbiology
- Travels to the Nanoworld : Nature (November 11, 1999), Chemistry & Industry (December 6, 1999)
- The Birds, the Bees, and the Platypuses : Messages from Chemistry, 2008 No. 10, p. 1063; Chemistry in Our Time (Treffpunkt Buch Plus), June 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Groß in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1609 to the present
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volume 393, p. 227, nature.com
- ↑ Volume 402, p. 119, nature.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-English science journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirn |