Time: 6:00pmVenue: Physics Lecture Theatre, GO Jones Building, Mile End Campus
From having a peanut butter sandwich coughed over him on his first day as a journalist to lecturing to an audience of half a person; from performing on a glass-bottomed boat in a shark tank to demonstrating gravity on TV with a bucket of maggots. Come and hear Marcus Chown, ex-Queen Mary student and author, talk about how he got from Mile End Road to where he is right now.Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Currently, cosmology consultant of “New Scientist”, he has written a number of books, including “We Need to Talk About Kelvin” (short-listed for the 2010 Science Book Prize), “Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You” and “Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil”. His most recent project is “Solar System for iPad”, which was the Apple Store's “iPad App of the Week”.
To book for this event please click on the 'book now' button at the top of the page
see also - map and directions to this venue