Theodore Gray

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Theodore Gray

Theodore W. Gray (born November 18, 1964 in Urbana , Illinois ) is an American chemist, co-founder of Wolfram Research and science writer.

Gray graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1986. He previously attended the University Laboratory High School at that university. He partly studied at the University of Göttingen (he speaks fluent German). He continued his studies at Berkeley, but left the university to develop Mathematica with Stephen Wolfram in 1987 . For Mathematica he developed the user interface. In 1988 he founded Wolfram Research with Wolfram and four others. Gray has co-authored books on Mathematica and is a freelance science journalist and author.

In 2010, he founded Touch Press with Stephen Wolfram, Max Whitby and John Chromie , who develop educational apps for the iPad. The first thing that came about was apps about elements and molecules. Gray also developed computer images (gif format) that show the functionality of various machines.

He had the Gray Matter column in Popular Science for a long time . He published collections of articles under the title Mad Science .

He became known for his depiction of the periodic table with photos of the elements, many of them from his extensive private collection. In 2011 he received the ACS Grady Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public from the American Chemical Society and in 2002 the Ig Nobel Prize for the chemistry division and presented the result in a book.

In 2019 he was one of the plenary speakers on the periodic table at the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Jerry Glynn: Exploring Mathematics with Mathematica, Addison-Wesley 1991
  • Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017
    • German translation: Reactions The fascinating world of chemistry, Edition Fackelträger Verlag GmbH Cologne, ISBN 978-3-96342-007-8
  • Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2014
    • German translation: Molecules The elements and the architecture of all things, Delphin Verlag GmbH Cologne, ISBN 978-3-96128-350-7
  • Theodore Gray's Elements Vault: Treasures of the Periodic Table with Removable Archival Documents and Real Element Samples — Including Pure Gold! Black Dog & Leventhal, 2011
  • The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009 (with the photographer Nick Mann)
    • German translation: The elements building blocks of our world, KOMET Verlag GmbH Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86941-003-6 with periodic table poster as an attachment (see background picture above right)
  • Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home — But Probably Shouldn't, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009
  • with Jerry Glynn: The Beginner's Guide to Mathematica Version 3, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (Version 4 was also published by Cambridge UP)
  • Theo Gray's Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But STILL Probably Shouldn't, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mechanical gifs
  2. ^ Periodic Table website by Gray
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gray, Theodore W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist, programmer, and science writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Urbana (Illinois)