Science journalist
Natalie Ann Wolchover (born October 16, 1986) 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.
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[2] In 2022 she won a
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting .
Early life
Wolchover was born in
London , England and later moved to
Blanco, Texas .
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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.
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Wolchover has written for publications including Quanta Magazine ,
Nature ,
The New Yorker ,
Popular Science , and
LiveScience .
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[1] Her articles are often
syndicated to sites such as
Wired ,
Business Insider ,
Nautilus , and
The Atlantic .
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Awards judges have recognized Wolchover's ability to communicate complex ideas such as
Bayesian statistics to a general audience.
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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 .
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excessive citations ] 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 .
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Education
Wolchover obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from
Tufts University , during which time she co-authored several publications in
non-linear optics .
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[1] In 2009, Wolchover went on to study graduate-level physics at the
University of California, Berkeley .
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[2] She left graduate school during the first year in order to pursue a career in science journalism.
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Awards and honors
Personal life
Wolchover lives in
Brooklyn, New York with her wife.
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References
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"Natalie Wolchover" . Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover | Quanta Magazine" . www.quantamagazine.org . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
^ Marzjarani, Morteza (August 2016).
"ESRA Award Winner Talks Physics and Statistics" . magazine.amstat.org .
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"Introducing: Natalie Wolchover" . Scientific American Blog Network . Retrieved 18 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (20 March 2018).
"A trek through the probable universe" . Nature . 555 (7697): 440–441.
Bibcode :
2018Natur.555..440W .
doi :
10.1038/d41586-018-03272-8 .
PMID
32034337 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (19 February 2019).
"A Different Kind of Theory of Everything" . The New Yorker .
ISSN
0028-792X . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . www.wired.com . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . Business Insider . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . National Press Foundation . Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
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"Frontier of Physics: Interactive Map" . Quanta Magazine . 3 August 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (11 June 2018).
"Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle" . Nautilus . Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (4 March 2019).
"The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (21 February 2019).
"How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (3 January 2019).
"How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
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"Studies Rescue LIGO's Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise" . Quanta Magazine . 13 December 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
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"Priyamvada Natarajan Maps the Invisible Universe" . Quanta Magazine . 4 February 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (25 February 2019).
"A World Without Clouds" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 9 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (14 July 2020).
"How Gödel's Proof Works" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 18 July 2020 .
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"Edward Witten Ponders the Nature of Reality" . Quanta Magazine . 28 November 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (12 April 2016).
"Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (17 July 2017).
"Eva Silverstein's Spirals and Strings" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
^ Wolchover, Natalie (23 June 2017).
"Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
^ authors, Natalie Wolchover +2 (7 August 2017).
"Joe Polchinski's Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 14 March 2019 . {{
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"Nima Arkani-Hamed and the Future of Physics" . Quanta Magazine . 22 September 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . Institute for Advanced Study . Retrieved 13 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover, A'08 | Physics and Astronomy" . as.tufts.edu . Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . www.aip.org . 20 October 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . Institute for Advanced Study . Retrieved 18 March 2019 .
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"Natalie Wolchover" . World Science Festival . Retrieved 16 March 2019 .
^ 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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