Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born October 8, 1962 ) is an English chemist, physicist and author of popular science non-fiction .
Life
Ball studied chemistry at Oxford University and received a PhD in physics from Bristol University . He worked for about 20 years as an editor for the journal Nature .
He has lived in the greater London area for years .
Awards
In 2004 Ball's book Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another was published , which was awarded the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2005. His book Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler (The Bodley Head) was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014. This prestigious British prize is endowed with £ 2,500 prize money for nominees who receive a winner ten times as much. Elegant Solutions received the Dingle Prize in 2007 . For 2019 Ball was awarded the Kelvin Medal by the Institute of Physics .
Works
- Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen (2015), ISBN 978-0-226-23889-0
- Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler (2014), ISBN 978-0-226-20457-4
- Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything (2013), ISBN 978-0-226-04579-5
- Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science (2012), ISBN 978-3-642-28999-6
- Unnatural, The Heretical Idea of Making People (2011), ISBN 978-1-84-792152-9
- The Music Instinct (2010), ISBN 978-1-84792-088-1
- Branches, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-923798-2
- Flow, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-923797-5
- Shapes, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-923796-8
- The Sun and Moon Corrupted , a novel, Portobello Books Ltd, (2008), ISBN 978-1-84627-108-3
- 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
- Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (2004), ISBN 0-434-01135-5
- 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 Color (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 )
- H 2 O: A Biography of Water (1999), ISBN 0-297-64314-2 (published in the US as Life's Matrix ) in German: H 2 O - Biographie des Wassers , 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
- Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier (1994), ISBN 0-691-00058-1
Web links
- Philip Ball official website
- Literature by and about Philip Ball in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Philip Ball at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Materials book wins Royal Society Winton Prize , BBC November 10, 2014, accessed November 11, 2014.
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SURNAME | Ball, Philip |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English scientist, journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1962 |