Natalie Wolchover

Natalie Wolchover is a science journalist.[1] She is a senior writer and editor for Quanta Magazine, and has been involved with Quanta's development since its inception in 2013.[1][2]

Early life

Natalie Wolchover was born in London, England and later moved to Blanco, Texas.[3]

Writing career

Wolchover began her career freelancing for Make magazine and Seed, then worked as an intern for Science Illustrated.[4] 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.[4]

Wolchover has written for publications including Quanta Magazine, Nature, the New Yorker, Popular Science, and LiveScience.[5][6][1] Her articles are often syndicated to sites such as Wired, Business Insider, Nautilus, and the Atlantic.[7][8]

Awards judges have recognized Wolchover's ability to communicate complex ideas such as Bayesian statistics to a general audience.[9]

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][1] In 2009, after spending a gap year working on an organic farm, and living in a tent, Wolchover went on to study graduate-level physics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] She left graduate school during the first year in order to pursue a career in science journalism, and "has never looked back".[1]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Wolchover lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her wife and two cats.[29]

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