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Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is best known for his novel Timescape, which won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1980. He has also written numerous short stories, essays, and articles, and has edited several anthologies. Benford was born in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in East Texas. He received his B.S. in physics from the University of Oklahoma in 1963, and his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, San Diego. He has been a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine since 1971. Benford has written over 20 novels, including Timescape, The Martian Race, and the Galactic Center Saga. He has also written numerous short stories, essays, and articles, and has edited several anthologies. He has won numerous awards, including the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1980 for Timescape, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel in 1981 for The Martian Race, and the Lord Foundation Award for Best Novel in 1983 for In the Ocean of Night. As of 2021, Gregory Benford's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

Popular As Gregory Albert Benford
Occupation writer
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 30 January, 1941
Birthday 30 January
Birthplace Mobile, Alabama, USA
Nationality United States

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2005

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 37-43. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

2000

Was chosen by the New York Times to design a time capsule which was buried in 2000 and targeted to be opened in 3000 AD.

1998

nuclear waste site (how do you warn people 10,000 years from now that the land used for radioactive waste is dangerous?), helped design the message to fly on the 1998 Cassini mission to Saturn, and participated in the planning and writing of text for the CD placed aboard the 1999 Russian Mars lander.

1995

In 1995 he received the Lord Prize for achievements in the sciences. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. He worked on long-term marking of the major U. S.

1993

Wrote the 1993 novel Chiller under the pseudonym Sterling Blake.

1990

Has won many literary awards, including the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.

1989

In 1989, he was host and scriptwriter for the television series, "A Galactic Odyssey", which described physics and astronomy from the perspective of the galaxy's evolution, an eight-part series produced for an international audience by Japan National Broadcasting.

1985

Other novels include thrillers Artifact (1985), Chiller (as by Sterling Blake, 1993), Cosm (1998), and Eater (2000). Benford has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and MIT, and served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy.

1971

In 1971 he joined University of California, Irvine, as a teacher, becoming a full professor of physics in 1979.

1970

His first novel, Deeper Than the Darkness (1970), dealt with alien contact, but the novel which established his reputation was Timescape (1980), winner of both a Nebula and a Campbell Memorial Award.

1967

in 1967. He spent the next four years at the Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow and research physicist.

1965

Benford was always a fan of science fiction and his first published story, "Stand In" (1965), won second place in a contest at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

1941

Gregory Benford was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1941. He received a B. S. from the University of Oklahoma, and attended the University of California, San Diego, where he earned a Ph. D.

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