MEET SOME OF OUR FAVORITE SCIENTISTS, NATURALISTS AND WRITERS

The Naturalist's Notebook is built on the scientific understanding of nature. That knowledge has been developed through generations of research and experimentation in all realms of science. We draw inspiration and insights from everyone who's working to expand and share human knowledge. The people on this page (some of whom we're fortunate enough to know) are among our favorites—a list that grows constantly and includes many others too. Click on any person's name to visit a page devoted to him or her. You'll see new faces here all the time.

NEIL SHUBIN, anatomist, evolutionary biologist and paleontologist and author of Your Inner Fish and other books; professor at University of Chicago — NEIL SHUBIN, anatomist, evolutionary biologist and paleontologist and author of *Your Inner Fish* and other books; professor at University of Chicago

ROBERT HAZEN, mineralogist, astrobiologist, professional trumpeter, Great Courses lecturer and author of more than 20 books, including The Story of Earth; professor at George Mason University and research scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geop… — ROBERT HAZEN, mineralogist, astrobiologist, professional trumpeter, Great Courses lecturer and author of more than 20 books, including *The Story of Earth*; professor at George Mason University and research scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory

NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, astrophysicist, host of the Cosmos TV series, director of the Hayden Planetarium and author of 13 books, including Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries and Origins: … — NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, astrophysicist, host of the *Cosmos* TV series, director of the Hayden Planetarium and author of 13 books, including *Astrophysics for People in a Hurry*, *Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries* and *Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution*

MARY ROACH, author of six books, including Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers — MARY ROACH, author of six books, including *Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void;* *Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal* and *Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers*

THOM HOLMES, writer, editor, music historian and author of more than 20 books about evolution, dinosaurs and other prehistoric life

ALEX FILIPPENKO, widely-cited astrophysicist, lecturer on Great Courses series, member of two cosmology research teams whose leaders shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and nine-time professor of the year at the University of California at … — ALEX FILIPPENKO, widely-cited astrophysicist, lecturer on Great Courses series, member of two cosmology research teams whose leaders shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and nine-time professor of the year at the University of California at Berkeley

ANDREA WULF, author of five books, including Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation and The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World — ANDREA WULF, author of five books, including *Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation* and *The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World*

MICHAEL R. CANFIELD, entomologist and author of Field Notes on Science and Nature and Theodore Roosevelt in the Field; lecturer on evolutionary and organismic biology at Harvard — MICHAEL R. CANFIELD, entomologist and author of *Field Notes on Science and Nature* and *Theodore Roosevelt in the Field;* lecturer on evolutionary and organismic biology at Harvard

KATHERINE FREESE, theoretical physicist and author of The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter; professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Nordita Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Stockholm

JEFF WELLS, ornithologist, boreal forest conservationist and author of the Birder's Conservation Handbook, Boreal Birds of North America and Maine's Favorite Birds — JEFF WELLS, ornithologist, boreal forest conservationist and author of the *Birder's Conservation Handbook,* *Boreal Birds of North America* and *Maine's Favorite Birds*

AMY STEWART, author of nine books, including Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities and The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms — AMY STEWART, author of nine books, including *Wicked Plants:* *The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities* and The Earth Moved: *On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms*

JOEL SARTORE, photographer, endangered-species conservationist and author of seven books, including Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species — JOEL SARTORE, photographer, endangered-species conservationist and author of seven books, including *Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species*

FRANCIS FRENCH, space historian, director of education at the San Diego Air & Space Museum and author of three books on space exploration, including Into That Silent Sea and In the Shadow of the Moon — FRANCIS FRENCH, space historian, director of education at the San Diego Air & Space Museum and author of three books on space exploration, including *Into That Silent Sea* and In the Shadow of the Moon

MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN, (1647-1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator centuries ahead of her time and author/illustrator of five books on plants, insects and other animals — MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN, (1647-1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator centuries ahead of her time and author/illustrator of five books on plants, insects and other animals

IAIN STEWART, geologist, BBC science-documentary presenter, host of Earth: The Biography series, member of the scientific board of UNESCO's International Geoscience Program, and director of the Sustainable Earth Institute; professor at the… — IAIN STEWART, geologist, BBC science-documentary presenter, host of *Earth: The Biography* series, member of the scientific board of UNESCO's International Geoscience Program, and director of the Sustainable Earth Institute; professor at the University of Plymouth in England

EDWARD O. WILSON, biologist, world-leading ant expert and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 28 books, including The Ants, On Human Nature and Letters to a Young Scientist; research professor emeritus of biology at Harvard. — EDWARD O. WILSON, biologist, world-leading ant expert and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 28 books, including *The Ants*, *On Human Nature* and *Letters to a Young Scientist*; research professor emeritus of biology at Harvard.

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, conservationist, zoologist, legendary broadcaster and author of 25 books, including The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals and The Living Planet — DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, conservationist, zoologist, legendary broadcaster and author of 25 books, including *The Life of Birds*, *The Life of Mammals* and *The Living Planet*