Science writer Philip Ball will
speak on “Nanotechnology in Fact and Fiction” on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 11:30 a.m. at Memorial Chapel.
His talk is part of the College's
Founders Day convocation. Ball will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree
from the College.
Ball, the consultant editor of Nature, the international journal of
science, has been in the thick of the hottest stories in physical sciences,
from high-temperature superconductivity to the explosion of buckyball science,
the debates over climate change, and life on Mars.
He is the author of seven books on
popular science including Bright Earth:
Art and the Invention of Color; H2O: A Biography of Water; and The Self-Made Tapestry. He is working on
a biography of 16th-century alchemist Paracelsus.
He is science writer in residence at the University
College, London,
and has written for scientific and popular audiences. He has broadcast on the
BBC, commercial, and U.S.
radio and given lectures to scientific and lay audiences around the world.