Nigel Calder
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Nigel Calder (born December 2, 1931) is a British science writer.
Between 1956 and 1966, Calder wrote for the magazine New Scientist, serving as editor from 1962 to 1966. Since that time, he has worked as an independent author and TV screenwriter. He has authored a series on popular science subjects broadcast by the BBC, with accompanying books, for which he received the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science in 1972. In 2004, his book Magic Universe was shortlisted for The Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
Nigel Calder is the son of the late Lord Peter Ritchie Calder and the father of travel writer Simon Calder.
[edit] Works
- The Manic Sun
- Violent Universe
- Restless Earth
- The Comet is Coming!
- Einstein’s Universe
- Nuclear Nightmares: An Investigation into Possible Wars
- The Human Conspiracy
- Radio-Astronomy
- The Life Game
- Nature in the Round
- Comets: Speculation and Discovery
- The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics
- The Green Machines
- Technopolis: Social Control of the Uses of Science
- Spaceship Earth
- On the Frontiers of Science: How Scientists See Our Future
- Scientific Europe
- Mnd of Man: An investigation into current research on the brain and human nature
- Beyond This World: Scientific Missions of the European Space Agency
- Spaceships of the Mind
- The Weather Machine
- Timescale
- Spaceship Earth
- Magic Universe (2003)
[edit] References
- (2005) Gullen, Zoe; Daniel Sefton Debrett's People of Today. Debrett's Peerage Ltd. ISBN 1-870520-05-X.
