" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. Marcus has written a number of popular science books, including The Magic Furnace, The Universe Next Door, The Never-ending Days of Being Dead and Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You. His latest book is We Need to Talk About Kelvin. Marcus Chown's first popular science book, Afterglow of Creation, has just been re-published in paperback by Faber & Faber. Marcus has appeared on Little Atoms twice.
First interview broadcast on 28th November 2008.
Second interview broadcast on 23rd October 2009.
On 19th February 2010 Marcus Chown was a guest host and interviewed Dr Stuart Clark, this interview can be downloaded here.