The 2014 Andrew Gemant Award is presented to Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, for extraordinary public outreach on particle physics and cosmology, as an educator, author, public lecturer, and consultant for TV and radio programs, and for his pioneering work communicating with a variety of international audiences using social networking. He has made significant contributions to science, has appeared on TV shows such as “The Colbert Report,” “NOVA” and “Through the Wormhole”, has written popular science books on the arrow of time and the Higgs boson, and regularly blogs at his site Preposterous Universe.
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