Thomas de Padova

Thomas de Padova (born February 7, 1965 in Neuwied am Rhein ) is a German science journalist.

Life

After graduating from Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied in 1984 , de Padova studied physics and astronomy in Bonn and Bologna . From 1997 to 2005 he worked as a science editor at Tagesspiegel . Since 2005 he has been working as a freelance journalist. De Padova lives in Berlin and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Magnus House of the German Physical Society and a member of the Urania program advisory board since 2006 . His book Das Weltgeheimnis - Kepler, Galilei and the measurement of the sky was selected as the Science Book of the Year 2010 in the category of natural science and technology. In January and February 2014 he was journalist in residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He received the Knowledge Book of the Year award in 2016 for Alone Against Gravity . His book Nonna , published in 2018, is about the world of his southern Italian grandmother. In 2019, de Padova was appointed Bonn City Clerk , especially with reference to Nonna .

Publications

• In the beginning there was no moon . Klett-Cotta, 2004, ISBN 3-608-94241-6 .
• Ride on the ray of light. In: Albert Einstein - Engineer of the Universe. Wiley, 2005, ISBN 3-527-40579-8 , pp. 106ff.
• The Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). In: Albert Einstein - Engineer of the Universe. Wiley, 2005, ISBN 3-527-40579-8 , pp. 414ff.
• The nursery academy . Piper, 2006, ISBN 3-492-25097-1 .
• Science in a beach chair . Piper, 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-25408-3 .
• The world secret: Kepler, Galilei and the measurement of the sky . Piper, 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05172-9 .
• Smart after eight . Piper, 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25957-6 .
• Leibniz, Newton and the Invention of Time . Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05483-6 .
• Alone against gravity. Einstein 1914-1918 . Hanser, 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-44481-2 .
• Nonna . Hanser Berlin, 2018. ISBN 978-3-446-25857-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas de Padova in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article at the Tagesspiegel
• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mercator Matinéen 2018 , accessed June 15, 2018
2. ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied , accessed on June 15, 2018.
3. ↑ Thomas de Padova on the MPIWG homepage ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Thomas de Padova becomes Bonn town clerk , boersenblatt.net, June 13, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019.