Dan Falk has written about science for The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Walrus, and New Scientist, and has been a regular contributor to the CBC Radio programs Ideas and Quirks and Quarks. He is the winner of the 2002 Canadian Science Writers' Association Science in Society Journalism Award, the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the 1999 American Institute of Physics' Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy. He lives in Toronto.

Forthcoming:

In Search of Time
(McClelland & Stewart, Can, Thomas Dunne Books, US, Fall 2008)

Published:

Universe on a T-Shirt:
The Quest for the Theory of Everything
(Penguin Canada, Arcade Publishing, US; Hebrew, Kinneret;
Portugese, Editora Globo; Japanese, Seidosha; Korean, Whistler;
French, Fides)

• 2003 John and Margaret Savage First Book Award,
  Atlantic Book Awards
• 2003 Science in Society Journalism Award,
  Canadian Science Writers’ Association

Articles

“Totally Genius”
article, Walrus Magazine

• 2005, Honourable mention, Science, Technology, and Environment,
  National Magazine Awards

Radio Documentaries - CBC Radio

“Einstein as Icon”

• 2005 Science in Society Journalism Award,
  (radio items under 30 minutes),
  Canadian Science Writers’ Association

“In The Beginning”
one hour documentary

• 2004, Gold Medal
  (Radio Programming)
  New York Festival

“The Question of Design”
two-hour documentary, CBC Radio One, Oct 16, 23, 2000

• 2002, Honourable mention, Science in Society Journalism Award
  (radio items over 20 minutes)
  Canadian Science Writers’ Association

“Visions of the Apocalypse”
one hour documentary

• 1999, Science in Society Journalism Award,
  (broadcast category)
  U.S. National Association of Science Writers

“From Empedocles to Einstein”
one hour documentary

• 1999, Science Writing Awards in Physics and Astronomy,
  (broadcast category)
  American Institute of Physics

“Hunting the Neutrino”

• 1997, Honourable mention, Science in Society Journalism Award
  (radio items under 10 minutes)
  Canadian Science Writers’ Association

Quotes:

About Universe on a T-Shirt

“Mixing simple explanation and personal profiles with touches of philosophy and whimsy, T-Shirt gives a highly accessible introduction to some tough and important physics. ”
     - American Scientist

“Falk's prose is familiar and clear, and the book hangs together well. . . . The author has a knack for popularizing modern physics. . . . The book as a whole offers an accessible . . . overview of the history of physics and is a reasonable introduction to physics past and present for readers with little science background. ”
     - Publishers Weekly

“Entertaining. . . Falk makes the history of Western science seem fresh and new, and the mysteries of modern physics remarkably accessible. With humor, brevity, and clarity . . . the author brings history and personalities to life. . . . Among the recent books attempting to translate, for the non-mathematicians, the leading edge of a science whose concepts can only be accessed mathematically, this may well be the most successful. ”
     - School Library Journal