List of science writers - Definition

Science writers write serious nonfiction about science aimed at a general audience. Some of them write science fiction as well.

General Science

• Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
• Carl Sagan, (1934-1996)

Biology and Ecology

• Rachel Carson, (1907-1964)
• Richard Dawkins, (born 1941)
• Stephen Jay Gould, (1941-2002)
• Edmund O. Wilson

Cognitive Science and Linguistics

• Antonio Damasio
• Noam Chomsky, (born 1928)
• Daniel Dennett, (born 1942)
• George Lakoff
• Roger Penrose, (born 1931)
• Stephen Pinker, (born 1954)
• David Crystal

Physics

• Hans Christian von Baeyer
• Timothy Ferris
• Richard Feynman, (1918-1988)
• Stephen Hawking, (born 1942)

Psychology

• Mark Epstein

Space and Astronomy

• Willy Ley, (1906-19690
• Marshall Savage

Health and Diet

• Henry Valentine Knaggs, (1859-1954)