Nigel Calder
Nigel David McKail Ritchie-Calder was a British science writer and climate change skeptic.
Background
- Born in
- Greater London
- Educated at
- Sidney Sussex College
- Awards
- 🏆 Kalinga Prize
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Trending topics shown first"But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit."
"The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness."
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Timeline
1931
Born
Birth2014
Died
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