About the Author

 

Journalist and author Nigel Cawthorne graduated in physics from University College, London, England. In the 1970s he worked on Science and Mechanics magazines in New York where Nikola Tesla had worked decades before. He has worked on scientific titles such as The Universe Explained, Tomorrow’s Technology, The History of Aviation, The History of Technology and The History of Ordnance, and periodicals including Electronics Today, Space Frontiers, Quest and Nature. He has also written many biographies. He lives in Bloomsbury, London, England.