John Gribbin

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John Gribbin is affiliated with the following schools: University of Sussex, Duke University, University of Kent, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, John R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction.

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Dynamics of galaxies (1975) (203)
In search of Schrödinger's cat : quantum physics and reality (1984) (112)
The Magnetic Universe (1970) (109)
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life (2004) (92)
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat (1984) (62)
The matter myth (1992) (56)
Universal pictures (1976) (53)
Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality (1995) (46)
Broadening Horizons (1973) (44)
Science: A History 1543-2001 (2002) (43)
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science : The Universe, Life and Everything (1998) (40)
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (2003) (40)
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science (1992) (36)
How Plankton Change The Climate (1991) (33)
The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything (1999) (32)
Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholeness (1985) (30)
Q Is for Quantum : An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics (1998) (28)
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution (2012) (27)
Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (1997) (26)
The matter myth : beyond chaos and complexity (1992) (24)
Discontinuous Change in Earth's Spin Rate following Great Solar Storm of August 1972 (1973) (23)
One small step (1974) (22)
Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology (1989) (21)
Open for business (1975) (20)
In search of the big bang : quantum physics and cosmology (1986) (18)
Darwin: A Life in Science (1995) (18)
Planetary Alignments, Solar Activity and Climatic Change (1973) (18)
The Jupiter Effect (1974) (18)
Being Human : Putting People in an Evolutionary Perspective (1993) (16)
In Search of the Multiverse (2009) (16)
Science in the media (1974) (15)
Relation of sunspot and earthquake activity. (1971) (15)
Hothouse Earth: The Greenhouse Effect and Gaia (1990) (15)
The Hole in the Sky: Man's Threat To the Ozone Layer (1988) (14)
Oscillating universe bounces back (1976) (14)
Einstein: A Life in Science (1993) (13)
Climatic change and food production (1976) (13)
Book-Review - the Matter Myth - Dramatic Discoveries that Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality (1992) (12)
In Search of the Edge of Time (1992) (12)
Water and climate (1978) (11)
Companion to the cosmos (1996) (11)
Climate and man (1976) (11)
Almost Everyone S Guide To Science (2014) (11)
The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (2003) (10)
In the Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe (1993) (10)
A new Determination of the Hubble Parameter using Galaxy Linear Diameters (1997) (9)
In Search of the Double Helix: Quantum Physics and Life (1985) (9)
The Matter Myth - Towards 21st Century Science (1991) (9)
The relative size of the Milky Way (1998) (9)
The Monkey Puzzle: Reshaping the Evolutionary Tree (1982) (8)
Pulsation Periods of Rotating White Dwarfs (1968) (8)
Genesis: the origins of man and of the universe (1981) (8)
The local to global $H_0$ ratio and the SNe Ia results (1999) (8)
Book-Review - Children of the Ice - Climate and Human Origins (1990) (7)
Any old iron? (1988) (7)
Stardust: Supernovae and Life: The Cosmic Connection (2000) (7)
Sunspots and earthquakes (1976) (7)
The hole in the sky (1988) (7)
Unveiling the edge of time : black holes, white holes, wormholes (1992) (7)
James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia (2009) (6)
Carbon dioxide and climate: Too much heat clouds debate (1978) (6)
Causes of climatic change (1975) (6)
Forecasts, famines, and freezes: Climate and man's future (1976) (6)
The man who invented black holes. (1994) (6)
The First Chimpanzee: In Search of Human Origins (2001) (5)
Cause and effects of global cooling (1975) (5)
Nature of Hoag's object (1974) (5)
The Universe: A Biography (2007) (5)
Climate and Mankind (1979) (5)
The Jupiter Effect: The Planets as Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes (1975) (5)
Alone in the universe : why our planet is unique (2011) (5)
Evolution of Stars and Galaxies 2nd edn (1976) (5)
The Mating Game: In Search Of The Meaning Of Sex (2001) (4)
The Ultimate Fate of the Universe (1984) (4)
Response to meeus (1975) (4)
The fellowship : Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the story of a scientific revolution (2007) (4)
Man's influence not yet felt by climate (1976) (4)
Science journalists come of age in Pisces (1974) (4)
138 : the quest to find the true age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything (2017) (4)
Alone in the Universe (2011) (4)
The death of the Sun (1980) (3)
The Raw Materials (1979) (3)
Model for Centaurus X-3 (1971) (3)
Origins and extinctions: Donald Osterbrock and Peter Raven (Editors), Yale University Press, 1989, 121 pp., £14.95/$20.00, ISBN 0 300 04260 4 (1989) (3)
Seyfert galaxies and QSOs (1976) (3)
What is unusual? (1977) (3)
Halley lecturer produces new theory of comet origins (1975) (3)
The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth (2011) (3)
The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution (2005) (3)
Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction (2008) (3)
In Search of the Big Bang: The Life and Death of the Universe (1999) (3)
Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes – Proceedings of the International School of Physics ‘Enrico Fermi’ Course LXV (1979) (3)
The One Per Cent Advantage: The Sociobiology of Being Human (1988) (3)
Computing with Quantum Cats (2014) (2)
The monkey puzzle: A family tree (1982) (2)
He Knew He Was Right: The Irrepressible Life Of James Lovelock (2009) (2)
The little book of science (1999) (2)
Winds of change : living in the global greenhouse (1990) (2)
The Omega Point - The Search For The Missing Mass And The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (1988) (2)
Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity (2016) (2)
Weather warning: you are now experiencing a climatic change (1974) (2)
Man against nature in the climatic stakes (1975) (2)
Future Worlds (1979) (2)
Solar connection (1976) (2)
White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe (1977) (2)
Retarded cores, black holes and galaxy formation (1974) (2)
An anniversary of some gravity. (1987) (2)
Covering the Universe (1975) (2)
Solar geomagnetic disturbances and weather (1974) (2)
Our changing climate (1975) (2)
Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits (2014) (2)
Bush House bonanza (1974) (2)
The Earth's Magnetic Field: Its History, Origin and Planetary Perspective – International Geophysics Series Vol 32 (1985) (2)
The Effect of Rotation on the Pulsation Periods of Degenerate White Dwarf Models (1969) (2)
A Brief History of Science (1998) (2)
Mason develops Milankovich Ice Age theory (1976) (2)
A night on Mount Hamilton (1974) (2)
Shutting the GATE (1975) (1)
Our living planet (1977) (1)
The Stuff of the Universe; Dark Matter, Mankind and Anthropic Cosmology (1995) (1)
On the Reality of the ~ 165-S ‘Period’ in the Variation of SCO X-1 (1972) (1)
Two approaches to scientific aid for disaster areas (1974) (1)
Galactic cannon for shooting out radio sources (1976) (1)
Galaxy Formation: A Personal View (1976) (1)
Blinded by the Light: The Secret Life of the Sun (1991) (1)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day (2008) (1)
Did Chinese cosmology anticipate relativity? (1975) (1)
One giant bore (1974) (1)
James E. Lovelock (1919–2022) (2022) (1)
The Birth Of Time - How We Measured The Age Of The Universe (2000) (1)
Earthquakes and Volcanoes (1978) (1)
The Breathing planet (1986) (1)
Whither water? (1974) (1)
No enemy but winter and rough weather (1974) (1)
Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs, and Humankind (1996) (1)
Aerosol and climate: hotter or cooler? (1975) (1)
Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World (2019) (1)
One step forward and two back for the steady state (1975) (1)
Climatic shifts (1978) (1)
Brightly shines the X-ray quasar (1975) (1)
Meteorological cycles: Astronomical cycles and the earth's climate (1975) (1)
Heated discussions on Sun and weather (1976) (1)
The birth of time (1999) (1)
Still no gravitational radiation (1974) (1)
Not quite the whole truth (1975) (1)
Volcanoes and ice ages (1975) (1)
Isotope clue to end of glaciation (1975) (1)
The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe (2000) (1)
Radiative Processes in Meteorology and Climatology (1976) (1)
Secrets of the Universe still locked up (1977) (1)
Matter and Energy: Physics in Action (1995) (1)
Taking the lid off cosmology (1979) (1)
Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation (1976) (1)
Trends in meteorology (1974) (1)
What's Wrong With Our Weather?: The Climatic Threat of the 21st Century (1979) (1)
[International news ‘picture story’] (1974) (1)
Panspermia Revisited (1999) (1)
Universal phenomena (1975) (0)
Introduction to the Stars (1970) (0)
Freezing hot water (2005) (0)
Business report (1974) (0)
Elementary world climatology (1975) (0)
The Science of Space–Time (1982) (0)
Star Formation: Proceedings of an IAU Symposium No 75, Geneva 6–10 September 1976 Dedicated to Solomon Pikel'ner (1978) (0)
Personal Relativity (1970) (0)
Three Concepts of Time (1983) (0)
2. Stepping stones to the Universe (2008) (0)
Ambartsumian’s Fragmentation Hypothesis (1976) (0)
3. Our island (2008) (0)
7. The origin of galaxies (2008) (0)
Gravity, dust and solar neutrinos (1978) (0)
Food production has kept up (1978) (0)
Prospects of Doom (1979) (0)
Novae and Related Stars: Proceedings of an International Conference held by Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, 7–9 September 1976 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library Vol 65) (1978) (0)
Frontiers of Astrophysics (1977) (0)
The Reason Why (2012) (0)
1. The Great Debate (2008) (0)
The Jupiter effect reconsidered. (1982) (0)
Why we are probably the only intelligent life in the galaxy: Alone in the milky way. (2018) (0)
New director for the RGO (1974) (0)
Black holes reveal themselves. (1992) (0)
Population and Food: The Malthusian Myth (1979) (0)
Transient observations of X-ray sources (1975) (0)
Collaboration fixes unique QSO spectra (1974) (0)
Squirting black hole kills off dinosaurs (1984) (0)
The New Astronomy (1984) (0)
Solar flares and weather (1975) (0)
Watching the Weather (1996) (0)
Ring of little confidence (1974) (0)
The Traditional Approach: Turbulence and Gravitational Instability (1976) (0)
Thank our X-ray stars for energy. (1976) (0)
Comets may conceal chemicals (1975) (0)
Topics in Interstellar Matter: Invited Reviews given for Commission 34 of the IAU, 16th General Assembly, Grenoble 25–30 August 1976 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library Vol 70) (1978) (0)
Ancient climates studied (1974) (0)
Are X-ray stars and pulsars related? (1975) (0)
Boom or Gloom? The Great Debate (1979) (0)
Gravitational Observations (1970) (0)
Under the BBC's bushel (1974) (0)
Epic work on climate (1977) (0)
The Accidental Universe (1983) (0)
How big is the Milky Way (1997) (0)
Supernova debris broadcasts its latest hit. (1992) (0)
Supernovae Before Pulsars (1970) (0)
Future of forestry in Britain (1974) (0)
Observing the millenium (1974) (0)
Forecasting the Forces of Nature (1979) (0)
Weather watch down under (1974) (0)
Seeing the stars (2007) (0)
Carbon Dioxide, Climate, and Man (1981) (0)
Herbert R. Shaw,craters, cosmos and chronicles, stanford UP (distributed by CUP outside North America), p688, HdBk, £50 (US $79.50), ISBN 0804721319 (1995) (0)
Man and the Solar System (1970) (0)
Does the universe oscillate (1977) (0)
Astronomy for the Amateur (1976) (0)
Our changing planet (1977) (0)
Bent light points to an older universe. (1995) (0)
Wright Preserved (1971) (0)
Great Red Spot plastic wrapped by Jovian bolts (1975) (0)
Venus, Earth and the Moon (2000) (0)
The case of the missing neutrinos : and other curious phenomena of the universe (1998) (0)
The Essential Darwin (2014) (0)
The cartoon history of time : a beginner's guide to quantum physics, relativity, and the beginning of the universe (1990) (0)
The fusion follies (1993) (0)
The Milky Way is just an average spiral (1997) (0)
Strange compendium (1977) (0)
‘Greenhouse Effect’ May Benefit the Third World (1983) (0)
A boundary condition useful in the calculation of stellar pulsations (1968) (0)
New horizons (1974) (0)
Climatic change (1976) (0)
Prospects for time travel (1997) (0)
Astronomers share Nobel Prize (1974) (0)
On the shoulders of giants (2010) (0)
How to study the birth of galaxies using radio-astronomical techniques (1975) (0)
Knowledge intensive agriculture: The need for science in labour intensive agriculture (1978) (0)
Book-Review - UFOs - a British Viewpoint (1980) (0)
Consequences of the Unresolvable (2002) (0)
Astronomy updated (1974) (0)
A Study of Norwegian Upper Secondary Physics Specialists’ Conception of Atomic Models and the Wave Particle Duality. A paper presented at ESERA 2001 in Thessaloniki by (2001) (0)
If at first you don't succeed … (1974) (0)
Assessing prospects for Spacelab (1975) (0)
Is Jupiter lord of the Solar System? (1974) (0)
Our changing universe: The new astronomy (1976) (0)
The Retarded Core Hypothesis (1976) (0)
Losses in Mass (1969) (0)
Pioneering Jupiter meeting at RAS (1974) (0)
The Nature of Time (1987) (0)
Jovian magnetotail stretches past Saturn (1976) (0)
4. Interlude: galactic mediocrity (2008) (0)
Time and Space (1994) (0)
Melding words (1984) (0)
Focus on astronomy (1974) (0)
USSR river diversions (1977) (0)
The Curious Case of the Shrinking Sun (1983) (0)
Layzer’s Gravitational Clustering Hypothesis (1976) (0)
Astronomy from the Space Shuttle (1975) (0)
CFCs active (1992) (0)
Do we live in an expanding galaxy (1978) (0)
News: Venus, Earth and the Moon (2000) (0)
Can life evolve in elliptical galaxies (1977) (0)
Impact of climate (1974) (0)
Jeffreys Lecturer links Sun and weather (1977) (0)
Wind of change at WMO (1974) (0)
The Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres (Book Review) (1977) (0)
Evolution of Galaxies (1976) (0)
Book-Review - the Ideas of Particle Physics (1985) (0)
The Sun, the Moon and the weather. (1981) (0)
The Growth of Irregularities in an Expanding Universe (1976) (0)
The Origin of the Solar System – Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1976 directed by W H McCrea and S K Runcorn (1979) (0)
An innocent abroad: science in London (1974) (0)
Book reviews (1984) (0)
[International News] (1975) (0)
Cosmology: The Expanding Universe (1976) (0)
Strange quarks alter the structure of neutron stars. (1991) (0)
The Present Balance and Future Prospects (1976) (0)
Formulae for Astrophysicists (1970) (0)
Book-Review - the Strangest Star - a Scientific Account of the Life and Death of the Sun (1980) (0)
More from Ariel V (1975) (0)
Living in the Future World (1979) (0)
Books brief (1975) (0)
8. The fate of galaxies (2008) (0)
Concise Encyclopedia of Astronomy (1977) (0)
Long term astronomical cycles and the earth's climate (1977) (0)
Basic astronomy (1976) (0)
Policies and Prospects: Technical and Social Change (1979) (0)
Could mini black holes provide a 'theory of everything'? (1990) (0)
The Scientific Revolution (2005) (0)
Soyuz-15: inside information (1974) (0)
New Astronomer Royal for Scotland (1974) (0)
Eccentric extracts (1974) (0)
6. The material world (2008) (0)
Black Holes and Warped Spacetime (1980) (0)
Newtonian Cosmology and Jeans’ Criterion (1976) (0)
NEW KIND OF MATTER TURNS UP IN COSMIC RAYS (1990) (0)
Book-Review - in Search of Schrodinger's Cat (1986) (0)
CO2 variations and the Southern Oscillation (1976) (0)
Space Rocketry (1971) (0)
Solar storm that shook the World (1973) (0)
Problems in Scientific Prediction (1978) (0)
5. The Expanding Universe (2008) (0)
Basic guide to the galaxies (1976) (0)
Coincidencias cósmicas: materia oculta, especie humana y cosmología antrópica (1991) (0)
Rockall: rock, island or microcontinent? (1985) (0)
Status report on the inner planets (1975) (0)
The Sun, Our Star (1983) (0)
Gamma-ray astronomy: the last observational frontier (1974) (0)
Space odyssey (1976) (0)
Stars and Galaxies (1976) (0)
Base Eight Arithmetic, Meteorites, and us (1982) (0)
DIFFERENTIALLY ROTATING HAMADA--SALPETER WHITE DWARF MODELS. (1969) (0)
All this and heavens too (1974) (0)
Future weather : carbon dioxide, climate and the greenhouse effect (1983) (0)
Book-Review - Spacewarps (1984) (0)
The Cartoon History of Time (1990) (0)
Time and the Universe (1999) (0)
Books-Received - Hawking, Stephen - a Life in Science (1993) (0)
Weighing up empty space. (1992) (0)

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