Philip Ball
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1962 –
Who is Philip Ball?
Philip Ball is an English science writer. He is an editor for the journal Nature for over 20 years, for whom he continues to write regularly. He now writes a regular column in Chemistry World. He has contributed to publications ranging from New Scientist to the New York Times, The Guardian, the Financial Times and New Statesman. He is the regular contributor to Prospect magazine, and also a columnist for Chemistry World, Nature Materials and BBC Future. He has broadcast on many occasions on radio and TV, and in June 2004 he presented a three-part serial on nanotechnology, 'Small Worlds', on BBC Radio 4.
Ball's most-popular book is the 2004 Critical Mass: How One Things Leads to Another, winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. It examines a wide range of topics including the business cycle, random walks, phase transitions, bifurcation theory, traffic flow, Zipf's law, Small world phenomenon, catastrophe theory, the Prisoner's dilemma. The overall theme is one of applying modern mathematical models to social and economic phenomena.
He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University.
As of 2008 he lives in London.
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- Born
- 1962
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- University of Bristol
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on July 23, 2013
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