Adam Becker




Adam Becker is an author, science journalist, and public speaker. He has written for the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, Quanta, New Scientist, Undark, and many other publications. His critically-acclaimed first book, What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, was longlisted for the 2018 PEN Literary Science Writing Award and shortlisted for Physics World’s Book of the Year. His second book, More Everything Forever, is a scientific and historical critique of unrealistic futures promulgated by the tech industry, forthcoming in April 2025 from Basic Books.

In addition to his writing, Adam has designed and coded multiple interactive online features, including a playable essay explaining Bell's Theorem. Adam has also appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Ologies with Alie Ward, KQED Forum, Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, and The Story Collider. Adam co-authored a script on incompleteness and the halting problem for Veritasium, a popular YouTube science channel; the resulting video has over 20 million views. He has also recorded an animated physics video series with the BBC.

Adam holds a Ph.D. in cosmology from the University of Michigan. He was a science journalist in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Spring 2023, and has previously held visiting positions at UC Berkeley and UC Irvine. He has received Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Book Grants to support the writing of What is Real? and More Everything Forever.