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Philip Ball
Science writer who served as an editor at Nature for over twenty years
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Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Modern Myths. He lives in London.
Notable works
Critical MassThe Book of MindsHow Life Works
HonoursAventis Prize for Science Books (2005) · Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal (2022)
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The Book of Minds
A tour of every kind of mind — animal, machine and alien — and what thinking really is.
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