M. Mitchell Waldrop
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M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a doctorate in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin and a master's in journalism at Wisconsin.
From 1977 to 1980, he was a writer and West Coast bureau chief for Chemical and Engineering News. From 1980 to 1991, he was a senior writer at Science magazine, where he covered physics, space, astronomy, computer science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, psychology, and neuroscience.
He was a freelance writer 1991-2003 and 2007-2008; in between he worked for the National Science Foundation from 2003 to 2006. Waldrop was also the editorial page editor at Nature magazine from 2008 to 2010, and a features editor at Nature until 2016.
Waldrop is the author of Man-Made Minds; Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos; and Cosmic Origins: Science’s Long Quest To Understand How Our Universe Began.
