Natalie Wolchover
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Natalie Wolchover is a science journalist.[1] She is a senior writer and editor for Quanta Magazine, and has been involved with Quanta's development since its inception in 2013.[1][2]
Early life[]
Wolchover was born in London, England and later moved to Blanco, Texas.[3]
Writing career[]
Wolchover began her career freelancing for Make magazine and Seed, then worked as an intern for Science Illustrated.[4] She then became a staff writer for Life's Little Mysteries where she answered science questions, debunked paranormal claims and fake videos and wrote about new research.[4]
Wolchover has written for publications including Quanta Magazine, Nature, The New Yorker, Popular Science, and LiveScience.[5][6][1] Her articles are often syndicated to sites such as Wired, Business Insider, Nautilus, and The Atlantic.[7][8]
Awards judges have recognized Wolchover's ability to communicate complex ideas such as Bayesian statistics to a general audience.[9]
Selected writing[]
Wolchover writes on topics within the physical sciences, such as high-energy physics, particle physics, AdS/CFT, quantum computing, gravitational waves, astrophysics, climate change, and Gödel's incompleteness theorems.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][excessive citations] Notable interviews include the highly cited theorists in high energy physics Ed Witten, Lisa Randall, Eva Silverstein, Juan Maldecena, Joe Polchinski, and Nima Arkani-Hamed.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][excessive citations]
Education[]
Wolchover obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Tufts University, during which time she co-authored several publications in non-linear optics.[26][1] In 2009, Wolchover went on to study graduate-level physics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] She left graduate school during the first year in order to pursue a career in science journalism.[1]
Awards and honors[]
- 2017 Science Communication Award, American Institute of Physics.[27]
- 2017 Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study.[28]
- 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award, American Statistical Association.[29][30]
- 2016 Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.[29][9]
- Writing featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015.[29]
Personal life[]
Wolchover lives in Brooklyn, New York with her wife.[29]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f "Natalie Wolchover". Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ a b "Natalie Wolchover | Quanta Magazine". www.quantamagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ Marzjarani, Morteza. "ESRA Award Winner Talks Physics and Statistics". magazine.amstat.org.
- ^ a b Zivkovic, Bora. "Introducing: Natalie Wolchover". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie (2018-03-20). "A trek through the probable universe". Nature. 555 (7697): 440–441. Bibcode:2018Natur.555..440W. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-03272-8. PMID 32034337.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie (2019-02-19). "A Different Kind of Theory of Everything". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ "Natalie Wolchover". www.wired.com. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ "Natalie Wolchover". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ a b "Natalie Wolchover". National Press Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ^ "Frontier of Physics: Interactive Map". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie (2018-06-11). "Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle". Nautilus. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ "Studies Rescue LIGO's Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ "Priyamvada Natarajan Maps the Invisible Universe". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "A World Without Clouds". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "How Gödel's Proof Works". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "Edward Witten Ponders the Nature of Reality". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "Eva Silverstein's Spirals and Strings". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie. "Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ authors, Natalie Wolchover +2. "Joe Polchinski's Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
- ^ "Nima Arkani-Hamed and the Future of Physics". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ "Natalie Wolchover". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ^ "Natalie Wolchover, A'08 | Physics and Astronomy". as.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ^ "Natalie Wolchover". www.aip.org. 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ^ "Natalie Wolchover". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
- ^ a b c d "Natalie Wolchover". World Science Festival. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ^ Talley, Jill (31 July 2016). "ASA Presents Physical Sciences Writer Natalie Wolchover with 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award" (PDF). ASA News. American Statistical Association.
External links[]
- An Interview with Natalie Wolchover, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
- Science Reporting in the Age of Sound Bites, Seminar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
- American science writers
- Women science writers
- Tufts University alumni
- Living people
- LGBT journalists from the United States
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni