Michael White is a former science editor of GQ. In a previous incarnation he was a member of the Thompson Twins, and then a science lecturer before becoming a full-time science writer in 1991. He is the author of some twenty books, including the best-selling Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer and Leonardo: The First Scientist. His latest is The Pope and the Heretic. He lives in Perth, Australia, with his wife and their three children.
Dr. John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer. He has worked for the science journal Nature and the magazine New Scientist, and has contributed articles on science topics to The Times, the Guardian, and the Independent. John Gribbin has received awards for his writing in both Britain and the United States and is currently a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, In Search of the Big Bang, In the Beginning, In Search of the Edge of Time, In Search of the Double Helix, In Search of SUSY, The Stuff of the
Universe (with Martin Rees), The Matter Myth (with Paul Davies), Einstein: A Life in Science (with Michael White), and Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (with Mary Gribbin). John Gribbin is also the author of several science fiction works, including Innervisions.
He is married with two sons and lives in East Sussex.