Manjit Kumar

Manjit Kumar (born 1963) is a science writer. He wrote the popular science book Quantum which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2009.^[1] He was also co-author of the book Science and the Retreat from Reason. He has degrees in physics and philosophy. He is the former Consulting Science Editor of Wired UK.^[2]

He lives in north London and is married with two sons.

He has written for many newspapers, websites and magazines.

• Daily Telegraph^[3]
• Financial Times^[4]
• The Guardian^[5]
• The Independent^[6]
• Literary Review^[7]
• Nature.com^[8]
• New Humanist^[9]
• New Scientist^[10]
• Sunday Telegraph^[11]
• Tehelka^[12]
• The Times^[13]
• Wall Street Journal^[14]

Prometheus was a short lived journal that covered the arts and sciences, that was edited by Manjit Kumar along with fellow associate Pandora Kay-Kreizman. Its first two issues had appeared by late 1999. Issue 3 was published in March 2000. and Issue 4—the final issue—around March 2001.

• Prometheus 1^[15]
• Prometheus 2^[16]
• Prometheus 3^[17]
• Prometheus 4^[18]

• His blog
• His twitter