John Maddox
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Sir John Royden Maddox (born 27 November 1925 in Penllergaer, Swansea, Wales), a trained chemist and physicist, is a prominent science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years.
Sir John Maddox studied chemistry and physics at Oxford University and King’s College London. From 1949 to 1955 he lectured in theoretical physics at the University of Manchester. He then became the science correspondent at the Manchester Guardian until 1964. From 1964 to 1966 he was the coordinator of the Nuffield Science Teaching Project, after which he was appointed as the editor of Nature, a role he held twice, from 1966-1973 and 1980-1995. He was director of Nuffield Foundation from 1975 to 1979. Maddox was knighted in 1995 and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000. He is currently a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and a Trustee of Sense About Science.
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- What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race. ISBN 0-684-82292-X (hardcover, 1998), ISBN 0-684-86300-6 (paperback, 1999)
