Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience. ^[1]

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Adam Savage

Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American industrial designer and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality, known as the former co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.

Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose

Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (15 June 1937 – 18 April 2016) was a British hereditary peer, journalist, and writer.

Alan Alda

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author.

Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science is a cross-disciplinary organization founded in 2009 within Stony Brook University's School of Journalism, in Stony Brook, New York.

Alexander Dewdney

Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5, 1941, in London, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist.

Alice Roberts

Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, television presenter and author.

Alister McGrath

Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Northern Irish theologian, priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist and public intellectual.

Amir Aczel

Amir Dan Aczel (November 6, 1950 – November 26, 2015) was an Israeli-born American lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science.

Anna Frebel

Anna Frebel (born 1980 in Berlin) is a German astronomer working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe.

Arizona State University

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

Arthur Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician of the early 20th century who did his greatest work in astrophysics.

Ashley Montagu

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905November 26, 1999), previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.

Ask a Biologist

Ask A Biologist is a science outreach program originating from Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences.

Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

Bang Goes the Theory

Bang Goes the Theory or Bang was a British television science magazine series, co-produced by the BBC and the Open University, that began on 27 July 2009 and ended on 5 May 2014 on BBC One.

Bas Haring

Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring / Prof.dr.

BBC Focus

BBC Focus is a British monthly magazine about science and technology published in Bristol, UK by Immediate Media Company.

BBC Sky at Night

BBC Sky at Night magazine is a British monthly magazine about astronomy aimed at amateur astronomers and published by Immediate Media Company.

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in over 30 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays.

Ben Goldacre

Ben Michael Goldacre (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer.

Ben Miller

Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and director.

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science (formerly titled Are We Alone?) is the SETI Institute's weekly science radio program, hosted by Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak and Molly Bentley, the executive producer of the radio show.

Bill Bryson

William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics.

Bill Nye

William Sanford Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science communicator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer.

Biological determinism

Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism or genetic reductionism, is the belief that human behaviour is controlled by an individual's genes or some component of their physiology, generally at the expense of the role of the environment, whether in embryonic development or in learning.

Bob Berman

Robert Berman, known as Bob Berman, is an American astronomer, author, and science popularizer.

Bob McDonald (science journalist)

Bob McDonald OC (born January 25, 1951) is a Canadian author and science journalist.

Brady Haran

Brady John Haran (born 18 June 1976) is an Australian-born British independent filmmaker and video journalist who is known for his educational videos and documentary films produced for BBC News and his YouTube channels, the most notable being Periodic Videos and Numberphile.

Brian Clegg (writer)

Brian Clegg (born 1955) is an English science writer.

Brian Cox (physicist)

Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Brian Greene

Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist.

Brian J. Ford

Brian J. Ford FLS HonFRMS (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire) is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public.

British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer (born 1966) is a popular science writer and blogger who has specialized in the topics of evolution and parasites.

Carolyn Porco

Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.

Cassini–Huygens

The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

CBC Radio

CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel is a popular science author, noted for his books How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog (also called How to Teach Physics to Your Dog) which has been translated into 9 languages, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog.

China Radio International

China Radio International (CRI) is a state-owned international radio broadcaster of the People's Republic of China.

Chriet Titulaer

Chriet Titulaer (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017), born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg province, was a Dutch astronomer, television presenter and popular science and technology writer.

Chris Lintott

Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist.

Christopher Potter (author)

Christopher Potter (born 1 April 1959 in Warrington) is the former publisher and managing director of Fourth Estate.

Citizen science

Citizen science (CS; also known as community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or networked science) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur (or nonprofessional) scientists.

Click (radio programme)

Click (previously known as Digital Planet and Go Digital) is a radio programme broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Colin Tudge

Colin Hiram Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a British science writer and broadcaster.

Connections (TV series)

Connections is a 10-episode documentary television series and 1978 book (Connections, based on the series) created, written, and presented by science historian James Burke.

Cosmos (Australian magazine)

Cosmos (styled COSMOS) is a science magazine produced in Australia with a global outlook and literary ambitions.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter.

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series.

Daily Planet (TV series)

Daily Planet is a television program on Discovery Channel Canada which features daily news, discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events and discoveries.

Dallas Campbell

Robert Dallas Campbell (born 17 September 1970) is a British television presenter and television and stage actor, best known as a presenter on the factual Channel 5 series The Gadget Show in 2008 and BBC One science series Bang Goes the Theory from 2009 to 2012.

Danica McKellar

Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, voice actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate.

Daniel Dennett

Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history.

Daniel Levitin

Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer.

David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

David Bellamy

David James Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist.

David Bodanis

David Bodanis is a futurist, speaker, business advisor and writer of popular science books, notably E.

David Brewster

Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 178110 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.

David Eagleman

David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American writer and neuroscientist, teaching at Stanford University as an in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist.

Desmond Morris

Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology.

Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

Don Herbert

Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske and better known as Mr. Wizard, July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007) was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72) and of Mr. Wizard's World (1983–90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology.

Donald Johanson

Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist.

Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

Easiness effect

The easiness effect of science popularization is the claim that as a result of science popularisation, laypeople become overconfident in their scientific understanding, with the result that science-related decision-making reflects misunderstanding of popularised science rather than professional scientists' scientific judgment.

Edge Foundation, Inc.

The Edge Foundation, Inc. is an association of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club.

Edward M. Lerner

Edward M. Lerner (born 1949) is an American author of science fiction, techno-thrillers, and popular science.

Edwin Emery Slosson

Edwin Emery Slosson (7 June 1865 – 15 October 1929) was an American magazine editor, author, journalist and chemist.

Elise Andrew

Elise Andrew (born 1989) is a British blogger and science communicator.

Eric Scerri

Eric R. Scerri is a chemist, writer and philosopher of science, of Maltese origin.

Eugene P. Northrop

Eugene P. Northrop (1908–1969) was an American research mathematician and a math popularizer.

Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum in San Francisco that allows visitors to explore the world through science, art, and human perception.

Forensic science

Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.

Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson, work which was based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins.

Fred Hoyle

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was a British astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce (born 30 December 1951) is an English author and journalist based in London.

Fred Watson

Frederick Garnett "Fred" Watson AM (born 14 December 1944) is an English-born astronomer and popular scientist in Australia.

Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist.

Frontiers of Science

Frontiers of Science was a popular illustrated comic strip created by Professor Stuart Butler of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in collaboration with Robert Raymond, a documentary maker from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1961.

Fulvio Melia

Fulvio Melia (born 2 August 1956) is an Italian-American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author.

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett Putnam Serviss (March 24, 1851 – May 25, 1929) was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer.

George Gamow

George Gamow (March 4, 1904- August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was a US paleontologist.

Gerald Edelman

Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system.

Guru Magazine

Guru Magazine is an online crowd-sourced magazine supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Hank Green

William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American entrepreneur, musician, educator, producer, vlogger, and author.

Heather Couper

Prof Heather Anita Couper, CBE, BSc, DSc (Hon), DLitt (Hon), FInstP, CPhys, FRAS (born 2 June 1949), is a British astronomer and science populariser, and was president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986.

Heinz Haber

Heinz Haber (May 15, 1913 – February 13, 1990) was a German physicist and science writer who primarily became famous for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects.

History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

Horace Freeland Judson

Horace Freeland Judson (21 April 1931 in Manhattan, New York – 6 May 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a historian of molecular biology and the author of several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.

Horizon (UK TV series)

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.

Howard Bloom

Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author.

HowStuffWorks

HowStuffWorks is an American commercial educational website founded by Marshall Brain to provide its target audience an insight into the way many things work.

Iain Stewart (geologist)

Iain Simpson Stewart, MBE FGS FRSE (born 1964) is a Scottish geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

Ian Stewart (mathematician)

Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945) is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer.

Institute of Making

The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club based at University College London.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

It's Not Rocket Science

It's Not Rocket Science was a British television show that has aired on ITV in early 2016.

J. B. S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964) was an English scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.

Jack Cohen (scientist)

Jack Cohen, FRSB (born 19 September 1933 in Norwich, United Kingdom) is a British reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction.

Jack Hanna

John Bushnell "Jack" Hanna (born January 2, 1947) is an American zookeeper who is the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-born British mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.

James Burke (science historian)

James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer, who is known, among other things, for his documentary television series Connections (1978), and for its more philosophically oriented companion series, The Day the Universe Changed (1985), which is about the history of science and technology.

James Gleick

James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.

James Randi

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

Jamie Hyneman

James Franklin Hyneman (born September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert who is best known as the co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage.

Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American ecologist, geographer, biologist, anthropologist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005); and The World Until Yesterday (2012).

Jay Ingram

Jay Ingram CM, BSc, MSc (born March 20, 1945) is a Canadian author and broadcaster.

Jayant Narlikar

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist.

Jim Al-Khalili

Jameel Sadik Al-Khalili (born 20 September 1962) is a British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster.

John Acorn

John Acorn, also known as The Nature Nut, is a Canadian naturalist.

John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos (born July 4, 1945) is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

John Brockman (literary agent)

John Brockman (born February 16, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature.

John D. Barrow

John David Barrow (born 29 November 1952) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician.

John Green (author)

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, vlogger, writer, producer, actor, editor, and educator.

John Gribbin

John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.

John Lennox

John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician specialising in group theory, a philosopher of science and a Christian apologist.

John Polkinghorne

John Charlton Polkinghorne (born 16 October 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer and Anglican priest.

Johnny Ball

Johnny Ball (born 23 May 1938) is an English television personality, a populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.

Jon Culshaw

Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian, best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000.

Joseph A. Schwarcz

Joseph A. Schwarcz is an author and a professor at McGill University.

Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

Julius Sumner Miller

Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909April 14, 1987) was an American physicist and television personality.

Kalinga Prize

The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people.

Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Kruszelnicki (born 20 March 1948), often referred to as "Dr Karl", is a well-known Australian science communicator and populariser, who is known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television.

Kenneth Feder

Kenneth L. "Kenny" Feder (born August 1, 1952) is a professor of archaeology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of several books on archaeology and criticism of pseudoarchaeology such as Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology.

Kenneth Walker (author)

Kenneth Macfarlane Walker (June 6, 1882 - January 22, 1966) was a British author, philosopher and urological surgeon.

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick FIET, FCGI, (born 9 February 1954) is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.

Kiki Sanford

Kirsten "Kiki" Sanford (born August 1, 1974) is an American neurophysiologist and science communicator.

Lancelot Hogben

Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS FRSE (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician.

Laura J. Snyder

Laura J. Snyder (born 1964) is an American historian, philosopher, and writer.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project.

Lewis Thomas

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Lewis Wolpert

Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL FMedSci (born 19 October 1929) is a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.

Linus Pauling

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, educator, and husband of American human rights activist Ava Helen Pauling.

Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology.

List of popular science books on evolution

This is a list of popular science books concerning evolution, sorted by surname of the author.

List of science museums

Below is the list of science museums all over the world.

Little Atoms

Little Atoms is a website, podcast and magazine dedicated to ideas and culture.

Live Science

Live Science is a science news website run by Purch, which it purchased from Imaginova in 2009.

Liz Bonnin

Elizabeth Bonnin (born 16 September 1970) is an Irish science, wildlife and natural history presenter, who has worked on television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Lucy Hawking

Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist.

Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist and biologist, science author, educator, and popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution.

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock (born 9 March 1968) is a British space scientist and science educator.

Magnus Pyke

Magnus Alfred Pyke OBE FRSE FRIC (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) was an English nutritional scientist, governmental scientific advisor, writer and presenter.

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker.

Marcia Bartusiak

Marcia F. Bartusiak is an author, journalist, and Professor of the Practice of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown (born 1959) is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine.

Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics.

Marek Kukula

Marek Janusz Kukula is a British astronomer born in 1969 and is the oldest of 5 siblings.

Mark Miodownik

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Mark Ridley (zoologist)

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Marlene Zuk

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Martin Gardner

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Martyn Poliakoff

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Mary Somerville

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Material World (radio programme)

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Matt Ridley

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Michael Allaby

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Michael Brooks (science writer)

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Michael Crichton

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Michael DeBakey

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Stevens (educator)

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Michael White (author)

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Michio Kaku

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MIT Technology Review

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Morgan Freeman

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Mr Science Show

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MythBusters

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NASA

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Natalie Angier

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National Academy of Engineering

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National Association of Science Writers

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National Geographic Society

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Natural History (magazine)

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Nature documentary

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Nature writing

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil Shubin

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New Scientist

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Nigel Calder

Nigel David McKail Ritchie-Calder (2 December 1931 – 25 June 2014) was a British science writer.

Norbert Wiener

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Nova (TV series)

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Nova ScienceNow

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NPR

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Oliver Sacks

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Olivia Judson

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Patrick Moore

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Paul Davies

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PBS

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Periodic Videos

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Peter Atkins

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Peter Fairley

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Peter Medawar

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Peter Wothers

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Pharyngula (blog)

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Phil Plait

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Philip Morrison

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Physics outreach

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PLOS

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Plus Magazine

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Popular history

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Popular mathematics

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Popular Mechanics

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Popular psychology

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Popular Science

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Popular Science (film series)

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Pseudoscience

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PZ Myers

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Quirks & Quarks

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Quo (magazine)

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Rachel Carson

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Radiolab

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Randall Munroe

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Ray Jayawardhana

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Richard Dawkins

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Richard Feynman

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Richard Gregory

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Richard Leakey

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Richard Lewontin

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Richard Wiseman

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Roald Hoffmann

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Rob Buckman

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Robert Krulwich

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Robert Matthews (scientist)

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Robert Olby

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Robert Pollack (biologist)

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Robert Winston

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Robin Dunbar

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Roger Lewin

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Roy Porter

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Royal Institution

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Sam Harris

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Science

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Science & Entertainment Exchange

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Science (journal)

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Science (TV network)

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Science by press conference

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Science communication

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Science Fantastic with Michio Kaku

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Science Friday

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Science Illustrated

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Science in Action (radio programme)

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Science journalism

Science journalism conveys reporting about science to the public.

Science News

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Science outreach

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Science World (magazine)

Science World is an educational magazine published by Scholastic Corporation targeting primarily children between grades 6 and 12 and covering many aspects of science, including "physical science, life science/health, earth and space science, environmental science, and technology.".

ScienceBlogs

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Scientific American

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Scientific literature

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Sean M. Carroll

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Seed (magazine)

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Sense about Science

Sense about Science is a UK charity that promotes the public understanding of science.

Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak (born July 20, 1943) is an American astronomer, currently Senior Astronomer for the SETI Institute and former Director of Center for SETI Research when it was a separate department.

Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist whose works largely contain a strong mathematical element.

Smithsonian (magazine)

Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.

Smithsonian Institution

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Sten Odenwald

Sten Felix Odenwald (born November 23, 1952) is an American astronomer, author, and NASA scientist-educator.

Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman.

Steve Grand (roboticist)

Steve Grand OBE (born 12 February 1958) is a British computer scientist and roboticist.

Steve Irwin

Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist and television personality.

Steve Jones (biologist)

(John) Stephen Jones (born 24 March 1944) is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.

Steven Johnson (author)

Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author and media theorist.

Steven Novella

Steven Paul Novella (born July 29, 1964) is an American clinical neurologist and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine.

Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.

Steven Rose

Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator.

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (born 1 October 1950) is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords.

Technologist (magazine)

Technologist is a European popular science magazine published by Eurotech Universities since June 2014.

TED (conference)

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The Bell Curve

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The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

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The Crocodile Hunter

The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series that was hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife, Terri.

The Mismeasure of Man

The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.

The Naked Scientists

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The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC.

This Week in Science

This Week in Science (TWIS) is a science Talk radio broadcast from KDVS (90.3 FM) on the UC Davis campus.

Thomas Hager

Thomas Hager is an American author of popular science and narrative nonfiction.

Through the Wormhole

Through the Wormhole is an American science documentary television series narrated and hosted by American actor Morgan Freeman.

Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty (2010) and Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Tor Nørretranders

Tor Nørretranders (born June 20, 1955) is a Danish author of popular science.

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics.

Walter Warwick Sawyer

Walter Warwick Sawyer (or W. W. Sawyer) (1911–2008) was a mathematician, mathematics educator and author, who taught on several continents.

Yakov Perelman

Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (Яков Исидорович Перельман; December 4, 1882 – March 16, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet science writer and author of many popular science books, including Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English).

Yoshiro Nakamatsu

, also known as, is a Japanese inventor.

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References

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