Philip Ball is a British science writer, born in 1962, trained in chemistry and physics and for many years an editor at Nature. His many books on science and its history include Critical Mass, which won the Aventis Prize, H2O: A Biography of Water, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works and The Man Who Broke Reality (2026), on Niels Bohr.
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Philip Ball is a British science writer, born in 1962, trained in chemistry and physics and for many years an editor at Nature. His many books on science and its history include Critical Mass, which won the Aventis Prize, H2O: A Biography of Water, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works and The Man Who Broke Reality (2026), on Niels Bohr.