| Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for achievements in the sciences. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. He worked on long-term marking of the major U.S. nuclear waste site, helped design the message to fly on the 1998 Cassini mission to Saturn, and participated in the planning and writing of text for the CD which will travel aboard the 1999 Russian Mars lander. His eighteen novels, including the classic Timescape, have won two Nebula Awards, the John W. Campbell Award, and the United Nations Medal in Literature. This author has been recommended by 29 other readers. | |
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