Natalie Wolchover Explained

Natalie Ann Wolchover (born October 16, 1986) is a science journalist. She is a senior writer and editor for Quanta Magazine, and has been involved with Quantas development since its inception in 2013.[1] [2] In 2022 she won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.[3]

Early life

Wolchover was born in London, England and later moved to Blanco, Texas.[4]

Writing career

Wolchover began her career freelancing for Make magazine and Seed, then worked as an intern for Science Illustrated.[5] 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.

Wolchover has written for publications including Quanta Magazine, Nature, The New Yorker, Popular Science, and LiveScience.[6] [7] Her articles are often syndicated to sites such as Wired, Business Insider, Nautilus, and The Atlantic.[8] [9]

Awards judges have recognized Wolchover's ability to communicate complex ideas such as Bayesian statistics to a general audience.

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] 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]

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] In 2009, Wolchover went on to study graduate-level physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She left graduate school during the first year in order to pursue a career in science journalism.

Awards and honors

Personal life

Wolchover lives in Brooklyn, New York with her wife.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. 2019-03-13.
  2. Web site: Natalie Wolchover Quanta Magazine. www.quantamagazine.org. 2019-03-13.
  3. Register . limited . pulitzerprizes . 1523741167724404736 . 2022-05-09 . en.
  4. Web site: Marzjarani . Morteza . ESRA Award Winner Talks Physics and Statistics . magazine.amstat.org. August 2016 .
  5. Web site: Introducing: Natalie Wolchover. Zivkovic. Bora. Scientific American Blog Network. 2019-03-18.
  6. Wolchover. Natalie. 2018-03-20. A trek through the probable universe. Nature. 555. 7697. 440–441. 10.1038/d41586-018-03272-8. 32034337. 2018Natur.555..440W. free.
  7. News: A Different Kind of Theory of Everything. Wolchover. Natalie. The New Yorker. 2019-02-19. 2019-03-13. 0028-792X.
  8. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. www.wired.com. 2019-03-13.
  9. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. Business Insider. 2019-03-13.
  10. Web site: Frontier of Physics: Interactive Map. Quanta Magazine. 3 August 2015 . 2019-03-16.
  11. Web site: Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle. Wolchover. Natalie. 2018-06-11. Nautilus. 2019-03-09.
  12. Web site: The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 4 March 2019 . 2019-03-09.
  13. Web site: How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 21 February 2019 . 2019-03-09.
  14. Web site: How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 3 January 2019 . 2019-03-09.
  15. Web site: Studies Rescue LIGO's Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise. Quanta Magazine. 13 December 2018 . 2019-03-09.
  16. Web site: Priyamvada Natarajan Maps the Invisible Universe. Quanta Magazine. 4 February 2019 . 2019-03-09.
  17. Web site: A World Without Clouds. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 25 February 2019 . 2019-03-09.
  18. Web site: Wolchover. Natalie. How Gödel's Proof Works. 2020-07-18. Quanta Magazine. 14 July 2020 . en.
  19. Web site: Edward Witten Ponders the Nature of Reality. Quanta Magazine. 28 November 2017 . 2019-03-13.
  20. Web site: Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 12 April 2016 . 2019-03-13.
  21. Web site: Eva Silverstein's Spirals and Strings. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 17 July 2017 . 2019-03-13.
  22. Web site: Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond. Wolchover. Natalie. Quanta Magazine. 23 June 2017 . 2019-03-13.
  23. Web site: Joe Polchinski's Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity. authors. Natalie Wolchover +2. Quanta Magazine. 7 August 2017 . 2019-03-14.
  24. Web site: Nima Arkani-Hamed and the Future of Physics. Quanta Magazine. 22 September 2015 . 2019-03-13.
  25. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. Institute for Advanced Study. en. 2019-03-13.
  26. Web site: Natalie Wolchover, A'08 Physics and Astronomy. as.tufts.edu. 2019-03-16.
  27. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. 2017-10-20. www.aip.org. en. 2019-03-16.
  28. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. Institute for Advanced Study. en. 2019-03-18.
  29. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. World Science Festival. en-US. 2019-03-16.
  30. News: ASA Presents Physical Sciences Writer Natalie Wolchover with 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. Talley. Jill. 31 July 2016. ASA News. American Statistical Association.
  31. Web site: Natalie Wolchover. National Press Foundation. en-US. 2019-03-16.

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