John Gribbin is the author of nearly 100 popular science books, including the best-selling In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, and eight science fiction novels. Many of these have been co-authored with his wife, Mary Gribbin. He has received awards for his writing both in the United States and in Britain, including the top UK science-writing award, administered by the Association of British Science Writers. The World Conference of Science Journalists awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Prize in 2009.

The holder of a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, he still maintains links with research as a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, and was a member of a team there that measured the age of the Universe.

John has worked in radio, making and presenting programmes for the BBC, and in television, occasionally in front of the cameras but more often as an adviser on science programmes. He has also written several shorter essays on cutting-edge science which have been published as Kindle Singles: Before the Big Bang, The Quantum Mystery, The Time Illusion and Discovering Gravitational Waves.

His book Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World was published by Icon and shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society book prize. A follow-up, Seven Pillars of Science, was published in 2020; Eight Improbable Possibilities in 2021; Nine Musings on Time in 2022 and Ten Tantalising Truths in 2023. An anthology of the first three of these titles was published as Impossible, Possible and Improbable in 2022.