Ball, Philip: - Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years.
He lives in London..
He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years.
Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society\'s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science.
His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books.
He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water and The Music Instinct.
Ball, Philip: - Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years