Natalie Wolchover

Physics Writer

Natalie Wolchover is a physics writer based in New York City. Now on staff at Quanta Magazine, she previously wrote for Popular Science, LiveScience and other publications. She has a bachelor’s in physics from Tufts University, studied graduate-level physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-authored several academic papers in nonlinear optics. Her article “At the Far Ends of a Universal Law” appeared in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015 and won the 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. She won the 2016 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for four articles, including “A Fight for the Soul of Science” (featured on Showcase). Follow her on Twitter @nattyover.