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John Gribbin

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British science writer

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John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.

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John Gribbin
said · 1999
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The classic example of chaos at work is in the weather.

The Little Book of Science (1999), p. 9

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1999Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Best known for In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, he has also written biographies of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Buddy Holly. Robert Macfarlane calls him "one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around."

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Born 1946 · age 80
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