John Gribbin graduated with his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Sussex in 1966. Gribben then earned his master of science (M.Sc.) degree in astronomy in 1967, also from the Univ. of Sussex, and he earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge (1971).
As a science writer, he has worked for the science journal Nature, and the magazine New Scientist and has written for The Times, The Guardian and the Independent as well as their Sunday counterparts and BBC radio.
He is best known for his book In Search of Schrödinger's Cat (1984).
In 1974, Gribben published, along with Stephen Plagemann, a book titled The Jupiter Effect, that predicted that the alignment of the planets in quadrrant on one side of the Sun in March 1982 would cause gravitational effects that would trigger earthquakes in the San Andreas fault, wiping out Los Angeles and its suburbs.Gribbin repudiated The Jupiter Effect in the July 17, 1980, issue of New Scientist magazine in which he stated that he had been "too clever by half".
In an article in the scientific journal Nature (February 1988), Gribbin was the first scientist to publicly suggest that the upcoming greenhouse effect might be reduced by adding large amounts of pulverized iron to the oceans of the world as a fertilizer for the aquatic plants.
Gribben published his 100th book, The Fellowship, in 2005.
Another of Gribben's books, Get a Grip on Physics (2003), experienced a sudden surge in sales at such ventors as Amazon.com after it was spotted in the photos of Tiger Woods's crashed automobile on November 27, 2009.
Find main list here hereSee also Gribbin's web page [1]
Fairly comprehensive list
(2009) Timeswitch (novel)
(2009) In Search of the Multiverse
(2009) Not Fade Away
(2009) He Knew He Was Right: The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia (co-author Mary Gribbin), Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-846-14016-7
(2009) From Here to Infinity: A Beginner's Guide to Astronomy
(2008) The Universe: A Biography, Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9857-1.
(2008) Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction
(2008) Time Travel for Beginners (children's, with Mary Gribbin)
(2007) La physique quantique, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-2-7440-7263-5.
(2006) The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution, Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9745-1 (the story of the Royal Society).
(2006) The Origins of the Future: Ten Questions for the Next Ten Years, Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-3001-2596-2.
(2005) Dazzling Discoveries
(2005) Annus Mirabilis: 1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity (coauthor Mary Gribbin), Chamberlain Bros. ISBN 1-5960-9144-4 (includes DVD)
(2004) Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity, Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6256-X.
(2004) The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
(2003) How far is up? : Measuring the Size of the Universe (coauthor Mary Gribbin), Icon Books 2005 edition. ISBN 1-8404-6439-9.
(2003) Big Numbers: A Mind Expanding Trip to Infinity and Back (coauthor Mary Gribbin), Wizard Books 2005 edition. ISBN 1-84046-661-8.
(2003) The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors, Random House. ISBN 0-8129-6788-7.
(2003) The First Chimpanzee: In Search of Human Origins (coauthor Jeremy Cherfas)
(2003) FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-3001-0361-1.
(2003) Science: A History 1543-2001, Gardners Books. ISBN 0-1402-9741-3.
(2002) Quantum Physics
(2001) Ice Age
(2001) Hyperspace: The Universe and Its Mysteries (also pub as Space: Our Final Frontier)
(2001) XTL: Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find It
(2001) The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-3000-8914-7.
(2000) Stardust: Supernovae and Life...The Cosmic Connection(coauthor Mary Gribbin), Yale University Press. ISBN 0-3000-9097-8
(2000) Eyewitness: Time & Space, DK Children. ISBN 0-7894-5578-1.
(1999) The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe
(1999) The Little Book of Science
(1999) Get a Grip on Physics
(1999) Almost Everyone's Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-3000-8460-9.
(1998) Watching the Universe
(1998) Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics, Free Press. ISBN 0-6848-5578-X.
(1998) The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
(1998) The Case of the Missing Neutrinos: And Other Phenomena of the Universe
(1997) Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (coauthor Mary Gribbin), Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-025334-3.
(1997) Darwin in 90 Minutes (series including, Newton, Curie, Einstein, Faraday, Galileo, Mendel, Halley)
(1997) Time and the Universe (children's)
(1997) Origins: Our Place in Hubble's Universe (as Empire of the Sun, ’98; as Cosmos ’06)
(1996) Watching the Weather
(1996) Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs, and Humankind (coauthor Mary Gribbin), St Martins Press. ISBN 0-3121-5529-8.
(1996) Companion to the Cosmos, Little
(1996) Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality, Back Bay Books. ISBN 0-3163-2819-7.
(1995) Darwin: A Life in Science (coauthor Michael White)
(1994) Time and Space
(1993) In the Beginning: After COBE and before the Big Bang
(1993) Einstein : A Life in Science (coauthor Michael White), Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster: ISBN 0-6710-1044-1.
(1993) Being Human: Putting People in an Evolutionary Perspective
(1993) Innervision (novel)
(1992) Too Hot to Handle? Greenhouse Effect
(1992) Stephen Hawking A Life in Science (coauthor Michael White), National Academies Press. ISBN 0-452-26988-1, 2002 edition: ISBN 0-3090-8410-5.
(1992) In Search of the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Worm Holes (US title Unveiling the Edge of Time), Three Rivers Press. 1994 reprint: ISBN 0-5178-8170-5.
(1991) Reunion (with Marcus Chown) (novel)
(1991) Ragnarok (with D.G. Compton) (novel)
(1991) The Matter Myth (coauthor Paul Davies)
(1991) Blinded by the Light: The Secret Life of the Sun
(1990) Hothouse Earth: The Greenhouse Effect and Gaia
(1990) Children of the Ice: Climate and Human Origins
(1990) The Cartoon History of Time (with Kate Charlesworth)
(1989) Father to the Man (novel)
(1989) Cosmic Coincidences, Bantam paperback: ISBN 0-5533-4740-3, New Age paperback: ISBN 0-5530-5730-8.
(1988) The One Percent Advantage: The Sociobiology of Being Human
(1988) The Hole in the Sky: Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer (rev. ed, 1993)
(1988) Double Planet (with Marcus Chown) (novel)
(1987) The Omega Point, Bantam. 0-5533-4515-X.
(1986) In Search of the Big Bang, Bantam. ISBN 0-5533-4617-2.
(1986) The Breathing Planet (editor)
(1985) Weather
(1985) In Search of the Double Helix,Bantam. ISBN 0-5533-4432-3.
(1984) The Redundant Male: Is Sex Irrelevant in the Modern World? (coauthor Jeremy Cherfas)(rev., The Mating Game, 2001)
(1984) In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality, Bantam. ISBN 0-5533-4253-3.
(1983) Spacewarps: Black Holes, White Holes, Quasars, and the Universe
(1983) Beyond the Jupiter Effect, Macdonald. ISBN 0-3560-8686-0.
(1982) The Monkey Puzzle: A Family Tree (coauthor Jeremy Cherfas), Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-52794-1.
(1982) Future Weather and the Greenhouse Effect
(1982) Brother Esau (with Douglas Orgill) (novel)
(1982) Cosmology Today (editor and contributor)
(1982) Genesis: The Origins of Man and the Universe
(1981) The Sixth Winter(with Douglas Orgill)(novel)
(1981) Carbon Dioxide, Climate, and Man
(1980) The Death of the Sun (also as The Strangest Star: The Scientific Account of the Life and Death of the Sun)
(1979) Weather Force: Climate and Its Impact on Our World
(1979) Timewarps
(1979) Future Worlds
(1979) Climate and Mankind
(1978) What's Wrong with Our Weather? The Climatic Threat of the Twenty-first Century
(1978) This Shaking Earth (aka Earthquakes & Volcanoes)
(1978) Climatic Change (Editor and contributor)
(1977) White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe
(1977) Our Changing Planet, Wildwood House Limited. ISBN 0-6900-1693-X.
(1976) Our Changing Universe: The New Astronomy
(1976) Galaxy Formation: A Personal View
(1976) Forecasts, Famines, and Freezes: Climates and Man's Future
(1976) Astronomy for the Amateur
(1974) The Jupiter Effect: The Planets As Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes (coauthor Stephen H. Plageman), Random House: ISBN 0-3947-2221-3; revised edition published as The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1982, ISBN 0-3947-0827-X.
