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FORA.tv Speaker - Marcus Chown

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Biography

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist.

The Magic Furnace
, Marcus' second book, was chosen in Japan as one of the Books of the Year by Asahi Shimbun. In the UK, the Daily Mail called it "a dizzy page-turner with all the narrative devices you'd expect to find in Harry Potter". His latest book is called Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You.

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Marcus Chown in Conversation with Fred Watson

05.23.09 | 01:06:42 min | 30,460 views | 31 comments