Michael Brooks

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Birthday May 7, 1970

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace England

Age 54 years old

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About

The author of such popular science books as Can We Travel Through Time?: The 20 Big Questions of Physics and 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, he also edited New Scientist magazine and contributed to numerous publications, including The Observer and The Guardian.

Before Fame

In 1999, at the age of twenty-nine, he found a publisher for his debut work, Quantum Computing and Communications.

Trivia

In 2010, he founded a United Kingdom political party called The Science Party and unsuccessfully ran against Member of Parliament and pseudoscience advocate David Tredinnick.

Family Life

A native of England, he earned his quantum physics Ph.D. from the University of Sussex.

Associated With

He and American researcher Edwin Kilbourne both published numerous scientific-themed works.