Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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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.
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[edit] Awards and honors
- 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, winner, The Wavewatcher's Companion[2]
[edit] Works
[edit] TV appearances
[edit] References
- ^ a b "The Cloudspotter's Guide". Conville and Walsh. http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/gavin-pretor-pinney/.
- ^ "Expert in idleness is surprise winner of science book prize", The Independent, 18 November 2011
- ^ "The Wavewatcher’s Companion". http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/wavewatchers-companion/.
- ^ "Daily Telegraph review". The Daily Telegraph (London). 13 June 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7814714/The-Wavewatchers-Companion-by-Gavin-Pretor-Pinney-review.html.
- ^ "Cloudspotting". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k99th.
- ^ "The Secret Life of Waves". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5jhx.
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