This is a list of notable

science communicators Science communication is the practice of informing, educating, raising awareness of science-related topics, and increasing the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and arguments. Science communicators and audiences are ambiguously def ...

or popularizers of science, in alphabetical order by last name.

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John Acorn John Acorn is a Canadian naturalist. He is a lecturer at the University of Alberta, a research associate at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, and a research associate at the E.H. Strickland Entomology Museum. He is also a local Edmonton ...

, naturalist and broadcaster known as the "Nature Nut" *

Amir Aczel Amir Dan Aczel (; November 6, 1950 – November 26, 2015) was an Israeli-born American lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science. Biography Amir D. Aczel was b ...

, Jewish author and mathematician * Maggie Aderin-Pocock, space scientist and broadcaster *

Hashem Al-Ghaili Hashem Al-Ghaili (born August 11, 1990) is a Yemeni science communicator, director and producer. He is best known for his infographics and videos about scientific breakthroughs. Al-Ghaili's work in science communication gained the attention of sc ...

, molecular biotechnologist and video producer *

Jim Al-Khalili Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili ( ar, جميل صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in scien ...

, theoretical physicist, author, and science communicator * Alan Alda, actor, who inspired The Center for Communicating Science * Michael Allaby, writes on science, ecology, and weather *

Elise Andrew Elise Andrew (born 1989) is a British blogger and science communicator. She was the CEO and founder of IFLScience, a website and Facebook page on popular science. With regard to the site, Andrew has come under criticism for plagiarism, unlicens ...

, British blogger, founder and maintainer of the Facebook page "I Fucking Love Science" * Natalie Angier, science journalist and writer *

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, biochemist, science fiction writer, and author * Peter Atkins, a physical chemist and author * Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster

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* Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, & author *

J. Michael Bailey John Michael Bailey (born July 2, 1957) is an American psychologist, behavioural geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University best known for his work on the etiology of sexual orientation. He maintains that sexual orientation is heavily ...

, a psychologist is best known for his research on the etiology of sexual orientation * Johnny Ball, broadcaster and math popularizer * John D. Barrow, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and cosmologist; author of numerous journal articles, and books for general readers *

Marcia Bartusiak Marcia F. Bartusiak is an author, journalist, and Professor of the Practice Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained in both communications (B.A. from American University, 1971) and ...

, science journalist and author * David Bellamy, broadcaster, author, and botanist *

Bob Berman Robert Berman, known as Bob Berman, is an American astronomer, author, and science popularizer. He runs Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, USA. He was an adjunct professor of astronomy at New York’s Marymount College located in Wes ...

, astronomer *

Adrian Berry Adrian Michael Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (15 June 1937 – 19 April 2016) was a British hereditary peer, journalist, and global warming denier. Biography Berry was born in 1937, the elder son of Michael Berry, who was later created Lord H ...

, science author and columnist *

Tim Blais Tim Blais is a Canadian science communicator. He explains scientific topics via writing and performing a capella parodies of popular music which he records and posts on his YouTube channel, ''A Capella Science''. Early life and education Blais w ...

, physicist and YouTuber *

Howard Bloom Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author. He was a music publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince (musician), Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx (band), Styx.David Bodanis David Bodanis is an American speaker, business advisor and writer of bestselling nonfiction books, notably ''E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation'', which was translated into 26 languages. Originally from Chicago, he received ...

, author *

Liz Bonnin Elizabeth Bonnin (born 16 September 1976) is a French science, wildlife and natural history presenter, who has worked on television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. She presented morning show ''RI:SE'' and music show ''Top of the Pops'' ...

, biochemist and TV presenter *

Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in ...

, author and Librarian of Congress * Sir David Brewster, Scottish scientist * John Brockman, specializing authorship in the scientific literature *

Jacob Bronowski Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to sc ...

, mathematician, biologist, historian of science, author, and pioneering science broadcaster * Michael Brooks, noted for explaining complex scientific research * Bill Bryson, author * Rob Buckman, doctor of medicine, broadcaster, columnist, author * James Burke, broadcaster, television producer, and author; best known for the science historian BBC TV series

Connections Connections may refer to: Television * '' Connections: An Investigation into Organized Crime in Canada'', a documentary television series * ''Connections'' (British documentary), a documentary television series and book by science historian Jam ...

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* Nigel Calder, broadcaster and journalist *

Dallas Campbell Robert Dallas Campbell (born 17 September 1970) is a British television presenter and television and stage actor, best known as a presenter on the factual Channel 5 series ''The Gadget Show'' in 2008 and BBC One science series '' Bang Goes t ...

, Presented Bang Goes the Theory * Fritjof Capra, physicist and author * Eugene Thacker, philosopher and author * Sean Carroll, cosmologist, blogger, and author * Rachel Carson, marine biologist, conservationist, author * Manuel Castells, sociologist and writer * Juliana Chan, Singaporean biologist and science communicator *

Marcus Chown Marcus Chown (born 1959) is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for ''New Scientist'' magazine. Biography He graduated from the Queen Mary University of London in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in physics ...

, author and science journalist *

Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Spac ...

, science fiction author, inventor, and futurist * Brian Clegg, author * Jack Cohen, reproductive biologist *

Heather Couper Heather Anita Couper, (2 June 1949 – 19 February 2020) was a British astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser. After studying astrophysics at the University of Leicester and researching clusters of galaxies at Oxford University, Co ...

, astronomer, broadcaster, and author * Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer, underwater explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, and broadcaster * Brian Cox, broadcaster, musician, and physicist *

Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature tech ...

, medical doctor, author, filmmaker *

Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical struc ...

, molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist; joint discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule *

Jon Culshaw Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English actor, comedian and impressionist. He is best known for his work on the radio comedy '' Dead Ringers'' since 2000. Culshaw has voiced a number of characters for ITV shows including ''2DT ...

, impressionist, also occasionally appears as a presenter on

The Sky at Night ''The Sky at Night'' is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013. The latter date ...

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* Antonio Damasio, neuroscientist and writer * Tobias Dantzig, mathematician and author * Paul Davies, physicist, author, and broadcaster *

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...

, evolutionary biologist and author * Michael DeBakey, world-renowned cardiac surgeon, innovator, and author *

Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relat ...

, philosopher, cognitive scientist and author * Keith Devlin, mathematician and author *

Alexander Dewdney Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5, 1941) is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, and brother of poet Christopher Dewdney. ...

, mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher * Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist, physiologist and geographer * Ann Druyan, science writer, co-author with (and widow of)

Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on ext ...

* Robin Dunbar, anthropology; evolutionary psychology, culture and language; and specialist in primate behavior * Marcus Du Sautoy, author, broadcaster, Professor of Mathematics

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David Eagleman David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American neuroscientist, author, and science communicator. He teaches neuroscience at Stanford University and is CEO and co-founder of Neosensory, a company that develops devices for sensory substituti ...

, neuroscientist and author * Sir Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist *

Gerald Edelman Gerald Maurice Edelman (; July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concern ...

, from the immune system, analogously, to brain & mind * Loren Eiseley, Professor of Anthropology and History of Science *

Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Stuart Ellenberg (born October 30, 1971) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He is also an author of both fiction and non-ficti ...

, mathematician and author

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* Peter Fairley, journalist and broadcaster * Michael Faraday, scientist and lecturer *

Kenneth Feder Kenneth L. "Kenny" Feder (born August 1, 1952) is a professor of archaeology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of several books on archaeology and criticism of pseudoarchaeology such as '' Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Scien ...

, archaeologist, skeptic, lecturer, and author * Timothy Ferris, science writer and best-selling author of twelve books * Richard Feynman, physicist and author *

Brian J. Ford Brian J. Ford HonFLS HonFRMS (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire) is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 ...

, biologist, lecturer, and author *

Anna Frebel Anna Frebel (born 1980 in Berlin) is a German astronomer working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe. Career Anna Frebel grew up in Göttingen, Germany. After finishing high school, she began studying physics in Freiburg im Brei ...

, astrophysicist and author *

Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. He is known for his distinctive deep voice and various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received ...

, actor and host for TV's

Through the Wormhole ''Through the Wormhole'' is an American science documentary television series narrated and hosted by American actor Morgan Freeman. It began airing on Science Channel in the United States on June 9, 2010. The series concluded its run on May 16 ...

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* George Gamow, physicist, cosmologist, and author * Martin Gardner, mathematician, author, skeptic & polymath * Atul Gawande, surgeon and author * Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author * James Gleick, author and journalist * Marcelo Gleiser, physicist and astronomer * Ben Goldacre, medical doctor, psychiatrist, and author *

Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould sp ...

, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science historian; author of numerous essays, articles, and books * Steve Grand, computer scientist and roboticist * Hank Green, entrepreneur, musician, and vlogger * Brian Greene, physicist *

Susan Greenfield Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, (born 1 October 1950) is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords (since 2001). Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's dise ...

, brain physiologist, writer and broadcaster *

Richard Gregory Richard Langton Gregory (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. Life and career Richard Gregory was born in London. He was the son of Christopher Clive Langton ...

, neuropsychologist, author and editor of several books * John Gribbin, astronomer and author

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Heinz Haber Heinz Haber (May 15, 1913 in Mannheim – February 13, 1990 in Hamburg) was a German physicist and science writer who primarily became known for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects. His lucid style of explaining ...

, physicist and author *

Gunther von Hagens Gunther von Hagens (born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen; 10 January 1945) is a German anatomist who invented the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination. He has organized numerous ''Body Worlds'' public exhibitions an ...

, german anatomist and pathologist, inventor of

plastination Plastination is a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts, first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or ...

and creator of Body Worlds * Thomas Hager, author and science journalist *

J. B. S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

, biologist and author *

Jack Hanna Jack Bushnell Hanna (born January 2, 1947) is a retired American zookeeper and a former director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. "Jungle Jack" was director of the zoo from 1978 to 1992, and is viewed as largely responsible for elevat ...

, zoologist, broadcaster, author * Brady Haran, filmmaker *

Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari ( he, יובל נח הררי ; born 1976) is an Israeli historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers '' Sapiens: A Brief History ...

, historian, professor, and writer *

Bas Haring Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring (born 23 April 1968 in De Bilt) is a Dutch writer of popular science and children's literature, television presenter and professor. He is a full professor at Leiden University, where he has held a chair in "public unde ...

, philosopher and author * Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author * Lucy Hawking, journalist and daughter of Stephen Hawking * Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and author * Ed Hawkins, British climatologist who developed

warming stripes Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes, climate timelines or stripe graphics) are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray long-term temperature trends. Wa ...

and other graphics * Katharine Hayhoe Canadian climate scientist and author * Don Herbert, a.k.a.

Mr. Wizard ''Mister'', usually written in its contracted form ''Mr.'' or ''Mr'', is a commonly used English honorific for men without a higher honorific, or professional title, or any of various designations of office. The title 'Mr' derived from earlier ...

, broadcaster * Roald Hoffmann, chemist *

Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, an ...

, computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and author * Lancelot Hogben, experimental zoologist and medical statistician, with many popularising books on science, mathematics, and language *

Sabine Hossenfelder Sabine Hossenfelder (born 1976) is a German theoretical physicist, author, musician and YouTuber. She is currently employed as a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. She is the author of ''Lost in Math: How Beauty Le ...

, a theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity * Fred Hoyle, British astronomer *

Julian Huxley Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. ...

, eminent scientist, author, and first Director of UNESCO * Jamie Hyneman, special effects artist and TV personality (''

MythBusters ''MythBusters'' is a science entertainment television program, developed by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. It was broadcast internatio ...

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Jay Ingram Jay Ingram CM (born March 20, 1945) is a Canadian author, broadcaster and science communicator. He was host of the television show ''Daily Planet'' (originally titled ''@discovery.ca''), which aired on Discovery Channel Canada, since the channe ...

, broadcaster and author ('' Daily Planet'') * Steve Irwin, wildlife expert and conservationist; TV personality of the worldwide-fame wildlife documentary TV series ('' The Crocodile Hunter'')

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Hope Jahren Anne Hope Jahren (born September 27, 1969) is an American geochemist and geobiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests dating to the Eocene. She has won many pre ...

, geochemist and author *

Ray Jayawardhana Ray Jayawardhana is the Harold Tanner Dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, effective September 1, 2018. He was formerly Dean of Science and a Professor of physics & astron ...

, astrophysicist and author *

Donald Carl Johanson Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering, with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb, the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar ...

, paleoanthropologist and author * Steven Johnson, author *

Steve Jones Steve or Steven Jones may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Steve Jones (English presenter) (born 1945), English musician, disk jockey, television presenter, and voice-over artist *Steve Jones (musician) (born 1955), English rock and roll guita ...

, evolutionary biologist and author *

Horace Freeland Judson Horace Freeland Judson (April 21, 1931 – May 6, 2011) was a journalist and later with more prominence a historian of molecular biology including authoring several books, including ''The Eighth Day of Creation'', a history of molecular biology, ...

, historian of molecular biology and author * Olivia Judson, evolutionary biologist, broadcaster and author

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* Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author *

Sam Kean Sam Kean is an American writer. He has written for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Mental Floss'', ''Slate'', ''Psychology Today'', and ''The New Scientist''. He has also published six books which discuss scientific discoveries in a narrative s ...

, author * Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich * Lawrence Krauss, physicist and author * Robert Krulwich, broadcaster *

Karl Kruszelnicki Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki (born 1948), often referred to as "Dr Karl", is an Australian science communicator and populariser, who is known as an author and a science commentator on Australian radio and television. K ...

, a.k.a. Dr Karl, broadcaster

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* Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist *

John Lennox John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist and Christian apologist. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and faith (like his books, ''Has Science Buried Go ...

, mathematician and author * Edward M. Lerner, computer engineer and author *

Daniel Levitin Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four ''New York Times'' best-selling books, including '' This Is You ...

, a cognitive neuroscientist and author *

Roger Lewin Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books. Career Lewin was a staff member of ''New Scientist'' in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for ''Science (journal), Science'' fo ...

, British anthropologist * Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and author * Willy Ley, space travel enthusiast and science writer (“Prophet of the Space Age”) *

Don Lincoln Don Lincoln (born 1964) is an American physicist, author, host of the YouTube channel Fermilab, and science communicator. He conducts research in particle physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and was an adjunct professor of physics ...

, particle physicist and author *

Chris Lintott Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Lintott is involved in a number of popular scien ...

, astrophysicist * Avi Loeb, astronomer and author

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* Bob McDonald, CBC journalist and host of ''Quirks and Quarks'' * Alister McGrath, molecular biologist and author * Katie Mack, astrophysics professor who focuses on studying dark matter * Lynn Margulis, evolutionary biologist and author * Robert Matthews, physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and distinguished science journalist * Danica McKellar, actress, author, mathematician *

Terrence McKenna Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including ps ...

, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author * Peter Medawar, biologist, called by

"the wittiest of all scientific writers" and by '' New Scientist'' "perhaps the best science writer of his generation". * Fulvio Melia, physicist, astrophysicist, and author * Ben Miller, English comedian and hosted shows such as It's Not Rocket Science (TV series) *

Julius Sumner Miller Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 – April 14, 1987) was an American physicist and television personality. He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia. Off-screen Julius Sumner Miller was bor ...

, physicist and broadcaster *

Mark Miodownik Mark Andrew Miodownik () is a British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer at University College London. Previously, he was the head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, and a co-founder of Materials Libr ...

, materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster, and writer * Ashley Montagu, anthropologist and humanist, authored by over 60 books *

Sir Patrick Moore Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (; 4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. Moore was president of the Brit ...

, amateur astronomer and broadcaster *

Desmond Morris Desmond John Morris FLS ''hon. caus.'' (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book ''The Naked Ape'', and for his televisi ...

, zoologist, ethologist and author *

Hamilton Morris Hamilton Morris (born April 14, 1987) is an American journalist, documentarian, and scientific researcher. He is the creator and director of the television series ''Hamilton's Pharmacopeia'', in which he investigated the chemistry, history, and ...

, pharmacologist, broadcaster, and author * Philip Morrison, physicist, known for his numerous books & TV programs * Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist, biologist, author *

Derek Muller Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian-Canadian science communicator, filmmaker, and television personality, who is best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium. Muller has also appeared as a correspondent on the Net ...

, science-based youtube content creator * Randall Munroe, writer of ''What if'' blog * PZ Myers, professor and author of the science blog Pharyngula

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Yoshiro Nakamatsu , also known as , is a Japanese inventor. He regularly appears on Japanese talk shows demonstrating his inventions. Nakamatsu creativity process In interviews, Nakamatsu has described his "creativity process", which includes listening to music an ...

, Japanese inventor * Jayant Narlikar, cosmologist and author * Steven Novella, skeptic and advocate of science-based medicine * Eugene P. Northrop, research mathematician and math popularizer *

Bill Nye William Sanford Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter. He is best known as the host of the science television show ''Bill ...

, actor, mechanical engineer, branded as "The Science Guy" *

Tor Nørretranders Tor Nørretranders (born 20 June 1955) is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own ...

, author

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Sten Odenwald Sten Felix Odenwald (born November 23, 1952) is an American astronomer, author, and NASA scientist-educator. Odenwald has worked as part of the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer, Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment investigating the cosmic inf ...

, astronomer, author, lecturer *

Robert Olby Robert Cecil Olby (born in Beckenham on October 4, 1933; died December 31, 2020) was a research professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Formerly Reader at the University of Leeds, UK, Robert ...

, author and historian of science *

Chad Orzel Chad Orzel is a professor of physics and science author, noted for his books ''How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog'', which has been translated into 9 languages, and ''How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog''. Chad as a science communicator is a ...

, physicist and author

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Kasha Patel Kasha Govind Patel (born July 18, 1991) is an American science writer, stand-up comedian, voice artist, and podcaster. She currently works as the deputy weather editor for the Washington Post. She has produced the only regularly-recurring science ...

, comedian and science writer *

Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling (; February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific top ...

, biochemist, author, and educator * John Allen Paulos, mathematician and author * Fred Pearce, journalist at New Scientist * Yakov I. Perelman, author * Wendell Phillips, archaeologist * Steven Pinker, experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and author * Phil Plait, astronomer and skeptic who runs the Bad Astronomy website * Martyn Poliakoff, British chemist, featured in the YouTube '' The Periodic Table of Videos'' series *

John Polkinghorne John Charlton Polkinghorne (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of ma ...

, physicist and author * Robert Pollack, biologist and author * Michael Pollan, journalist and author, professor *

Carolyn Porco Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging scienc ...

, leader of Cassini Imaging Team *

Roy Porter Roy Sydney Porter, FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College L ...

, prolific work on the history of medicine * Christopher Potter, publisher, philosopher and author *

Eduard Punset Eduard Punset i Casals (; 9 November 1936 – 22 May 2019) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer. He held a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's in Economic Sciences from the Uni ...

, politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer *

Magnus Pyke Magnus Alfred Pyke (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) was an English nutritional scientist, governmental scientific adviser, writer and presenter. He worked for the UK Ministry of Food, the post-war Allied Commission for Austria, and diff ...

, food scientist, broadcaster, and author

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V. S. Ramachandran Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is an Indian-American neuroscientist. He is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. Ramachandran is a disti ...

, neuroscientist, cognitive scientist, and author * James Randi, stage magician, skeptic, and author * Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and author * Mark Ridley, zoologist, evolutionary scientist and author * Matt Ridley, zoologist, journalist and author * Alice Roberts, anatomist, anthropologist, television presenter, and author *

Steven Rose Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator. He is emeritus professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London. Early life Born in London, Unit ...

, biologist, neurobiologist, broadcaster and author *

Carlo Rovelli Carlo Rovelli (born May 3, 1956) is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France. He is also currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and c ...

, theoretical physicist and author

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* Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author *

, astrobiologist, astronomer, broadcaster, and author * Kirsten Sanford, neurophysiologist and broadcaster *

Laurie Santos Laurie may refer to: Places * Laurie, Cantal, France, a commune * Laurie, Missouri, United States, a village * Laurie Island, Antarctica Music * Laurie Records, a record label * ''Laurie'' (EP), a 1992 album by Daniel Johnston * "Laurie (Stran ...

, cognitive scientist, professor of psychology, and host of '' The Happiness Lab'' * Adam Savage, special effects artist and TV personality (''

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Walter Warwick Sawyer Walter Warwick Sawyer (or W. W. Sawyer) (April 5, 1911– February 15, 2008) was a mathematician, mathematics educator and author, who taught on several continents. Life and career Walter Warwick Sawyer was born in St. Ives, Hunts, England on A ...

(or W. W. Sawyer), mathematician, mathematics educator, and author * Eric Scerri, chemist, historian and philosopher of science, and author *

Joseph A. Schwarcz Joseph A. Schwarcz (born 1947) is an author and a sessional instructor at McGill University. He is the director of McGill's Office for Science and Society. Early life Schwarcz is an only child, born in Sopron, Hungary to Jewish parents. During t ...

, chemist, author, TV and radio host *

Garrett P. Serviss Garrett Putnam Serviss (March 24, 1851 – May 25, 1929) was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in Sharon Springs, New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He to ...

, American astronomer and science fiction writer * Tali Sharot, cognitive neuroscientist and writer *

Seth Shostak Seth Shostak (born July 20, 1943) is an American astronomer and author, and is currently the senior astronomer for the SETI Institute. Shostak hosts SETI's weekly radio show/podcast ''Big Picture Science'', has played himself numerous times in TV ...

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Neil Shubin Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and ...

, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist * George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist, zoologist and author * Simon Singh, physicist, mathematician, and author * Edwin Emery Slosson, chemist, journalist, and editor *

Laura J. Snyder Laura J. Snyder (born 1964) is an American historian, philosopher, and writer. She is a Fulbright Scholar, is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, was the firsLeon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellowaThe Leon Levy Center for Biographyat The Graduate ...

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Mary Somerville Mary Somerville (; , formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary ...

, polymath, mathematician, and author * Paul Stamets, mycologist and author * Michael Stevens, science-based YouTube content creator * Iain Stewart, geologist and broadcaster * Ian Stewart, mathematician and author *

David Suzuki David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at th ...

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* Lewis Thomas, physician, poet, etymologist, and essayist *

Chriet Titulaer Chriet Titulaer (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017), born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, was a Dutch astronomer, television presenter and popular science and technology writer. He lived in Houten, Utrecht. Biography Titulaer went to high school at ...

, Dutch astronomer, author, and broadcaster *

Colin Tudge Colin Hiram Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a British biologist, science writer and broadcaster. Tudge was born and brought up in south London and attended Dulwich College, from where he won a scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, studying zool ...

, biologist and author * Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author

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* Kenneth Walker (author), surgeon and author * Alie Ward, television and podcast host *

Fred Watson Frederick Garnett "Fred" Watson AM (born 14 December 1944) is an English-born astronomer and popular scientist in Australia. He holds the role of Australia's First Astronomer at Large with the Commonwealth Government of Australia, relaying ...

, astrophysicist, musician, and author * James D. Watson, molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist * Kevin Warwick, biomedical scientist, roboticist, and author * Victor Weisskopf, physicist, science administrator and author * Michael White, musician and science writer *

Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher i ...

, mathematician, author; the father of cybernetics * Simon Winchester, geologist and author * Robert Winston, medical doctor, scientist, TV presenter, and author * Richard Wiseman, psychologist and author * Stephen Wolfram, mathematics, theoretical physics, scientific computing *

Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert was best known for his French flag model of embryonic development, where he used the French flag a ...

, developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster *

Peter Wothers Peter David Wothers, , is a British chemist and author of several popular textbooks aimed at university students. He is a teaching fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of St Catharine's College, C ...

, chemist and author *

Andrea Wulf Andrea Wulf (born 1972) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews. Biography Wulf was born in New Delhi, India, a child of German developmental aid workers, and spent the first five yea ...

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Paul Zaloom Paul Finley Zaloom (born December 14, 1951) is an American actor and puppeteer, best known for his role as the character Beakman on the television show ''Beakman's World''. Career Born in Garden City, Paul Zaloom was educated at The Choate S ...

, the actor who portrayed an eccentric scientist on the children's TV show '' Beakman's World'' 1992–1998 * Carl Zimmer, science writer and author of the science blog The Loom *

Marlene Zuk Marlene Zuk (born May 20, 1956) is an American evolutionary biology, evolutionary biologist and Ethology, behavioral ecologist. She worked as professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) until she transferred to the Univ ...

, evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist

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