SCIENCE, STORY AND THE DISCOVERY OF SELF
SCIENCE, STORY AND THE DISCOVERY OF SELF
JACOB BERKOWITZ
Science, Story, and Discovery of Self
Author, Playwright, Science Writer
Jacob Berkowitz has been telling the Story of Science for the past 25 years
Berkowitz's curiosity driven writing explores the intersection of science, story and self—with an eye to the great sweep of history.
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He is the author of three science-based books, with translations of Jurassic Poop in Dutch and Korean, a recipient of the American Institute of Physics Book Award and funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. His plays have won multiple Prix Rideau awards, including Outstanding New Creation, 2022.
He is the 2023-2024 Baruch Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.
Berkowitz's reporting and commentary from the front-lines of scientific and medical discovery appears in leading Canadian newspapers, including The Globe and Mail.
Having interviewed more than 600 scientists, Berkowitz's writing is deeply informed by experiences working alongside a diverse range of explorers, from astrophysicists debating the dynamics of dark matter to fossil-hunting with palaeontologists.
Founder of Quantum Writing, a boutique science writing agency, Berkowitz has turned complex facts into engaging stories for dozens of science-based organizations across the United States and Canada, from the (U.S.) National Inventors Hall of Fame to Canada’s futurist agency Policy Horizons. His science writing combines deep expertise in multidisciplinary knowledge synthesis, translation and popularizing.
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Bob MacDonald Interview with Jacob Berkowitz on
The Stardust Revolution
Berkowitz is recipient of the Paris Prix Audace as science writer on the documentary film The Quantum Tamers, and his media appearances include CBC Quirks and Quarks and NPR’s Science Friday.
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He has been Journalist-in-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California, and a Dibner Fellow in the History of Science (Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA). He's the long-time Writer-in-Residence, Institute for Science, Society and Policy , University of Ottawa.