Anil Ananthaswamy

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Anil Ananthaswamy
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Anil Ananthaswamy
NationalityIndian
Education Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, University of Washington Seattle, University of California, Santa Cruz
Occupation(s)Writer, Journalist
Notable workThe Edge of Physics; The Man Who Wasn't There; Through Two Doors at Once.

Anil Ananthaswamy is an Indian author, and science journalist, who is currently a Knight Science Journalism Research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a deputy news editor and staff writer for the London-based New Scientist science magazine.

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He is also a contributor to the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is affiliated to the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. He is a guest contributor on Science and Physics for New Scientist , Quanta , Scientific American , PNS Front Matter, Nature , Nautilus , Matter, The Wall Street Journal , Discover, and the UK's Literary Review .

Works

Ananthaswamy explores themes around cosmology, the universe, theoretical physics, and quantum physics in his works. [1] [2] Books authored by him include:

Awards and recognition

Ananthaswamy won the inaugural Physics Journalism Prize from the UK Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2010. [6] He received this award for his feature in the March issue of the New Scientist, Hip Hip Array, which details the plans to build the Square Kilometre Array, an ambitious radio telescope with receiver dishes covering a square kilometer in area. [7] [8]

Ananthaswamy's first book, The Edge of Physics, was voted as the book of the year in 2010 by UK's Physics World. His second book, The Man Who Wasn't There, was long listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. [9] His most recent book, Through Two Doors at Once, was named one of Smithsonian's favorite books of 2018, and one of Forbes' best books about Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics in 2018. [10] [11]

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