LEVY/SLOAN FELLOW 2021 – 2022

Patchen Barss

For a biography of Roger Penrose

Patchen Barss is the author of the illustrated children’s book Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature (OwlKids 2018), the editor of Conquering Space (Scientific American Classics, 2015), and the author of The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google (Random House, 2010). He has written for BBC Future, Scientific American, Nautilus, and The Walrus. His biography is of mathematician and cosmologist Roger Penrose.