
M. Mitchell Waldrop
M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin in 1975 and a master’s degree in journalism at Wisconsin in 1977. From 1977 to 1980, he was a writer and West Coast bureau chief forChemical and Engineering News. From 1980 to 1991, he was a senior writer at Sciencemagazine, where he covered physics, space, astronomy, computer science, artificial intelligence, molecularbiology, psychology, and neuroscience....