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'''Natalie Wolchover''' is a science journalist.<ref name=":7" /> She is a senior writer and editor for ''[[Quanta Magazine]]'', and has been involved with ''Quanta''{{'}}s development since its inception in 2013.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/outreach/writer-in-residence/natalie-wolchover|title=Natalie Wolchover|website=Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/natalie/|title=Natalie Wolchover {{!}} Quanta Magazine|website=www.quantamagazine.org|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref> |
'''Natalie Ann Wolchover''' (born October 16, 1986) is a science journalist.<ref name=":7" /> She is a senior writer and editor for ''[[Quanta Magazine]]'', and has been involved with ''Quanta''{{'}}s development since its inception in 2013.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/outreach/writer-in-residence/natalie-wolchover|title=Natalie Wolchover|website=Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/natalie/|title=Natalie Wolchover {{!}} Quanta Magazine|website=www.quantamagazine.org|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
Revision as of 07:24, 13 May 2022
Natalie Ann Wolchover (born October 16, 1986) 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
- 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting[27]
- 2017 Science Communication Award, American Institute of Physics.[28]
- 2017 Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study.[29]
- 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award, American Statistical Association.[30][31]
- 2016 Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.[30][9]
- Writing featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015.[30]
Personal life
Wolchover lives in Brooklyn, New York with her wife.[30]
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.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "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.
- ^ "https://twitter.com/pulitzerprizes/status/1523741167724404736". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
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- ^ "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