John R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. The topical range of his prolific writings includes quantum physics, biographies of famous scientists, human evolution, the origins of the universe, climate change and global warming. His also writes science fiction. John Gribbin graduated with his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Sussex in 1966. Gribbin then earned his master of science (M.Sc.) degree in astronomy in 1967, also from the Univ. of Sussex, and he earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge (1971). In 1968, Gribbin worked as one of Fred Hoyle's research students at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, and wrote a number of stories for New Scientist about the Institute's research and what were eventually discovered to be pulsars. In 1974, Gribbin published, along with Stephen Plagemann, a book titled The Jupiter Effect, that predicted that the alignment of the planets in quadrant on one side of the Sun on March 10, 1982 would cause gravitational effects that would trigger earthquakes in the San Andreas fault, possibly wiping out Los Angeles and its suburbs. Gribbin repudiated The Jupiter Effect in the July 17, 1980, issue of New Scientist magazine in which he stated that he had been "too clever by half". In 1984, Gribbin published In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality, the book that he is best known for, which continues to sell well 28 years after publication. It has been described as among the best of the first wave of physics popularisations preceding Stephen Hawking's multi-million-selling A Brief History of Time. Gribbin's book has been cited as an example of how to revive an interest in the study of mathematics. In 2006, Gribbin took part in a BBC radio 4 broadcast as an "expert witness". Presenter Matthew Parris discussed with Professor Kathy Sykes and Gribbin whether Einstein "really was a 'crazy genius' ". At the 2009 World Conference of Science Journalists, the Association of British Science Writers presented Gribbin with their Lifetime Achievement award.
Series
Books
Ten Tantalising Truths
Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple Questions
2023
Einstein's Masterwork
1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
2015
In the Beginning
The Birth of the Living Universe
1993
13.8
The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
2015
The Scientists
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
2002
Genesis
The Origins of Man and the Universe
1981
The Birth of Time
How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe
1999
Planet Earth
A Beginner's Guide
2011
The Drabble Project
1988
Case of the Missing Neutrinos
1998
FitzRoy
The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
2003
The Time Illusion
2016
The Jupiter Effect
1656
Galaxies
A Very Short Introduction
2008
Alone in the Universe
Why Our Planet Is Unique
2011
Science
A History
2019
Not Fade Away
The Life and Music of Buddy Holly
2009
Nine Musings on Time
2022
The redundant male
1985
The Universe
A Biography
2007
In Search of the Edge of Time
1992
Stephen Hawking
A Life in Science
1992
Discovering Gravitational Waves
2017
The Omega Point
1988
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
The Universe, Life and Everything
1998
The Hole In The Sky; Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer
1988
Flower Hunters
2008
Six Impossible Things
The Mystery of the Quantum World
2019
Unveiling the Edge of Time
Black Holes, White Holes, Worm Holes
1992
Seven Pillars of Science
The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises
2020
Timewarps
1979
The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
1998
Eight Improbable Possibilities
The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
2021
Computing with Quantum Cats
2023
Space
Our Final Frontier
2001
The Origins of the Future
Ten Questions for the Next Ten Years
2006
James Lovelock
In Search of Gaia
2009
تاريخ العلم 1543 - 2001 - الجزء الثاني
2012
The Monkey Puzzle
Reshaping the Evolutionary Tree
1982
From Here to Infinity
A Beginner's Guide to Astronomy
2008
Annus Mirabilis
2005
Spacewarps
1983
Cosmic Coincidences
Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology
1989
The Quantum Mystery
2016
The Sixth Winter
1979
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Quantum Physics and Reality
1984
On the Origin of Evolution
Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
2020
Ben Bova Presents Father to the Man
1989
Companion to the Cosmos
1996
Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality
1984
Timeswitch
2009
Hyperspace
2001
In Search of the Big Bang
1986
Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution
2012
Computing with Quantum Cats
From Colossus to Qubits
2013
Science
A History in 100 Experiments
1870
He Knew He Was Right
The Life Of James Lovelock
2009
Children of the Ice
Climate and Human Origins
1990
Q is for Quantum
An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics
1998
In Search of the Multiverse
Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality
2009
In Search of the Double Helix
1985
Quantum Physics
2002
Get a Grip on Physics
1999
A Brief History Of Science by John Gribbin (1998) Hardcover
1998
Ice Age
2001
Eyewitness
1994
Fire on Earth
1996
Origins
Our Place In Hubble's Universe
1997
Deep Simplicity
2004
The Fellowship
Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution
2005
Out of the Shadow of a Giant
Hooke, Halley, and the Birth of Science
2017
Richard Feynman
A Life in Science
1997
