Michael Nielsen

Please add to this list of major scientists (Nobel- or near-equivalent for their field) who run blogs, together with a URL. - Michael Nielsen

Terry Tao (Fields Medal for mathematics) - http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ - Michael Nielsen

Tim Gowers (Fields Medal) - http://gowers.wordpress.com/ - Michael Nielsen

Alain Connes (Fields Medal) - http://noncommutativegeometry.... - Michael Nielsen

Gary Becker (economics Nobel) - http://www.becker-posner-blog.... also involves noted jurist Richard Posner - Michael Nielsen

David Deutsch (founder of quantum computing) - http://www.qubit.org/people/da... - Michael Nielsen

Couldn't we put all these sorts of lists in a wiki and/or in http://www.dmoz.org/ ? I guess FF comment is lower barrier? - Richard Akerman

Greg Mankiw (Harvard Professor, one of the world's most-cited economists) - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com... - Michael Nielsen

Dani Rodrik (another Harvard economics Professor) - http://rodrik.typepad.com/ - Michael Nielsen

Paul Krugman (usually regarded as a leading contender for the economics Nobel, for many contributions) - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.c... - Michael Nielsen

Carl Wieman (Physics Nobel) - http://www.scientificblogging.... - Michael Nielsen

Lance Fortnow (leading theoretical computer scientist) - http://weblog.fortnow.com/ - Michael Nielsen

Was going to leave this link to a post in Martin Fenner's blog, but I can tell from the comments that you already know about it: http://network.nature.com/blog... - Eva

I'd especially like blogs of scientists doing field work. I read http://scienceblogs.com. - todd

Any chemists or biologists or medical people? I know of a lot of mathematicians and economists, and a few physicists and computer scientists, but that may just be because of my background. - Michael Nielsen

Richard - yeah, FF has the lowest barrier to entry for constructing this kind of list. - Michael Nielsen

It's an easy place to create the list and following that the list can always be moved to a wiki or something - Deepak

Massimo Pigliucci: http://rationallyspeaking.blog... - Bora Zivkovic

If Cambridge Professors count as "major scientists" then there is PMR http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs... - Duncan Hull

Mitsuhiro Yanagida (Biology - chromosome segregation and cell cycle regulation): http://mthiei.exblog.jp - Ricardo Almeida

Michaael, will you be posting the final compilation anywhere in particular? I would like to point to such a listing in a forthcoming panel discussion for publishers where I will be participating in a week or two. - Jill O'Neill

Jill - If you'd like to blog the list, that'd be great! - Michael Nielsen

I can do that. Keep 'em coming. There must be more. - Jill O'Neill

I'd like to see a few more biologists.... - Maxine

@Maxine: Scienceblogs.com has a lot of blogs by biologists. Not many Nobel-prize winning ones, but still... - Christopher Granade

@Maxine - Twisted Biology http://twistedbacteria.blogspo... I'm not sure of the author's credentials, but he's been actively blogging since May of '07. - Jill O'Neill

Anton Zeilinger: http://quantinger.blogspot.com... Zeilinger is one of the best known experimental quantum physicists in the world. - Michael Nielsen

Nobel Faces is a (German) blog about nobel prize winners. Peter Badge fotographed all living nobel price winners and posts a picture a day. http://www.scienceblogs.de/nob... - Martin Fenner

Ben Schumacher: http://zerothorderapprox.blogs... Ben coined the term "qubit", and has made many important contributions to quantum information theory, notably proving several quantum analogues of Claude Shannon's famous results about the information capacity of a channel. - Michael Nielsen

Depends on your definition of "major" - I'll stick with "established"... - Heather

Herb Wilson, professor at Colby College, about local birds (also a newspaper column): http://www.mainebirds.blogspot... - Heather

Chet Raymo, http://www.sciencemusings.com/..., former professor at Stonehill College, but highly respected science writer for the Boston Globe - Heather

Mary Farmer, retired oceanographer from Woods Hole (http://network.nature.com/prof...), writes A Neotropical Savanna at http://ntsavanna.com/ - Heather

Of course, FemaleScienceProfessor http://science-professor.blogs... - but she's not "out" and doesn't wish to be. So not the best suggestion for this list meant to inspire. But she is certainly well known in her field and established. - Heather

Professor Russ Altman, Stanford http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/ - Duncan Hull

Professor Jonathan Eisen, UC David http://phylogenomics.blogspot.... (keeping notes for myself here - did this ever get written up?) - Duncan Hull

p.s. b*ll*cks to Nobel prizes, they are over-rated. Lots of great scientists will never win one. - Duncan Hull

Thanks Chris, I do know the science blogs, but this thread is about "major" scientists, yes? - Maxine

Summarised some of the above at "Big Boffins with Blogs" http://duncan.hull.name/2008/0... - Duncan Hull

Just remembered another one - Professor Ross Anderson, Computer Science (security), University of Cambridge: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper... - Andrew Walkingshaw

@Andrew an interesting blog, but I can't find any posts from Ross Anderson on it. There are plenty that mention him, but none seem to be authored by him? - Duncan Hull

Tim Bloggers-Lee http://dig.csail.mit.edu/bread... infrequently updated. Not a Professor at MIT but a Professor at Southampton. - Duncan Hull

David Leahy http://www.inkspotscience.com/... Professor at Newcastle University - Duncan Hull