菲利普·鮑爾(英語:Philip Ball,1962年10月30日—)是一位英國科普作家[1],本科畢業於牛津大學化學專業,博士畢業於布里斯托大學物理學專業,現為倫敦大學學院教授,《前景》雜誌編輯[2],曾在《自然》雜誌擔任編輯超過20年。
主要作品
- Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier (1994)
- Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century (1997)
- The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (1999)
- 《水》(H2O: A Biography of Water,1999年)
- 《分子》(Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules,2001年,入選牛津通識讀本)
- 《明亮的泥土:顏料發明史》(Bright Earth: the Invention of Colour,2001年)
- 《元素》(The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements,2002年,入選牛津通識讀本)
- 《預知社會:群體行為的內在法則》(Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another,2004年,獲得2005年英國皇家學會科學圖書獎)
- Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (2005)
- The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (2006)[3]
- The Sun and Moon Corrupted,(2008)
- Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral (2008)
- Shapes, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009)
- Flow, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009)
- Branches, Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in three Parts (2009)
- 《我們為什麼聽音樂》(The Music Instinct,2010年)
- Unnatural, The Heretical Idea of Making People (2011)[4]
- Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science (2012)
- 《好奇心:科學何以執念萬物》(Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything,2013年)
- 《為第三帝國服務:希特拉與科學家的拉鋸戰》(Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler,2014年,當年英國皇家學會科學圖書獎提名)[5][6]
- 《圖案密碼:大自然的藝術與科學》(Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does,2016年)
- 《水:中國文化的地理密碼》(The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China,2017年)
- 《量子力學,怪也不怪》(Beyond Weird:Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different,2018年)
- 《如何製造一個人:改造生命的科學和被科學塑造的文化》(How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made,2019年)[7]
- The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science (2021)
- The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery (2021)
- The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens (2022)[8]