Marcus Chown
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Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine. He graduated from the University of London in 1980, gaining a first class degree in physics, and later gained a Master of Science in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology. His bestselling books on cosmology, aimed primarily at the popular market, include: Afterglow of Creation: From the fireball to the discovery of cosmic ripples (1993); The Magic Furnace: The quest for the origin of atoms (1999); The Universe Next Door: Twelve Mind-Blowing Ideas from the Cutting Edge of Science (2001); The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science (2007); and Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe (2007) (previously published as The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe (2005)); Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil (2008).
