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Natalie Ann Wolchover (born October 16, 1986) is a science journalist.^[1] She is a senior writer and editor forQuanta Magazine, and has been involved withQuanta's development since its inception in 2013.^[1][2] In 2022 she won aPulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.^[3]

Wolchover was born inLondon, England and later moved toBlanco, Texas.^[4]

Wolchover began her career freelancing forMake magazine andSeed, then worked as an intern forScience Illustrated.^[5] She then became a staff writer for Life's Little Mysteries where she answered science questions, debunked paranormal claims and fake videos and wrote about new research.^[5]

Wolchover has written for publications includingQuanta Magazine,Nature,The New Yorker,Popular Science, andLiveScience.^[6][7][1] Her articles are oftensyndicated to sites such asWired,Business Insider,Nautilus, andThe Atlantic.^[8][9]

Awards judges have recognized Wolchover's ability to communicate complex ideas such asBayesian statistics to a general audience.^[10]

Wolchover writes on topics within the physical sciences, such as high-energy physics, particle physics,AdS/CFT,quantum computing,gravitational waves,astrophysics,climate change, andGödel's incompleteness theorems.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][excessive citations]} Notable interviews include the highly cited theorists in high energy physicsEd Witten,Lisa Randall,Eva Silverstein,Juan Maldecena,Joe Polchinski, andNima Arkani-Hamed.^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][excessive citations]}

Wolchover obtained a bachelor's degree in physics fromTufts University, during which time she co-authored several publications innon-linear optics.^[27][1] In 2009, Wolchover went on to study graduate-level physics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.^[1][2] She left graduate school during the first year in order to pursue a career in science journalism.^[1]

• 2022Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting^[3]
• 2017 Science Communication Award,American Institute of Physics.^[28]
• 2017 Director's Visitor,Institute for Advanced Study.^[29]
• 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award,American Statistical Association.^[30][31]
• 2016 Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.^[30][10]
• Writing featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015.^[30]

Wolchover lives inBrooklyn, New York with her wife.^[30]

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