Richard Panek

Richard Panek is an American popular science writer, columnist, and journalist specializing in space, the universe, and gravity. He holds a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books include The Autistic Brain (with Temple Grandin), The Trouble With Gravity, The 4 Percent Universe, and The Invisible Century. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the American Institute of Physics 2012 Science Communication Award for Journalism.