Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British designer and author of the best-selling The Cloudspotter's Guide (ISBN 0-340-89589-6).[1]
Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He co-founded the magazine The Idler and founded the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2004. He grew up in West London and now also lives in Somerset.
Awards and honors
- 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, winner, The Wavewatcher's Companion[2]
TV appearances
↑Jump back a sectionReferences
- ^ a b "The Cloudspotter's Guide". Conville and Walsh.
- ^ "Expert in idleness is surprise winner of science book prize", The Independent, 18 November 2011
- ^ "The Wavewatcher’s Companion".
- ^ "Daily Telegraph review". The Daily Telegraph (London). 13 June 2010.
- ^ "Cloudspotting". BBC.
- ^ "The Secret Life of Waves". BBC.
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