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 Telegraph³
• Financial Times⁴
• The Guardian⁵
• The Independent⁶
• Literary Review⁷
• Nature.com⁸
• New Humanist⁹
• New Scientist¹⁰
• Sunday Telegraph¹¹
• Tehelka¹²
• The Times¹³
• Wall Street Journal¹⁴

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 1¹⁵
• Prometheus 2¹⁶
• Prometheus 3¹⁷
• Prometheus 4¹⁸