24 Facts About Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford was born on January 30,1941 and is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

Gregory Benford was born in Mobile, Alabama and grew up in Robertsdale and Fairhope.

Gregory Benford modeled characters in several of his novels after his wife, most prominently the heroine of Artifact.

Gregory Benford has an identical twin brother, James Gregory Benford, with whom he has collaborated on science fiction stories.

At one point, Gregory Benford said he was an atheist because he could not reconcile the evil in the world with a benevolent God.

Gregory Benford has been a long-time resident of Laguna Beach, California.

Gregory Benford tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist.

Gregory Benford has worked on collaborations with authors William Rotsler, David Brin and Gordon Eklund.

Gregory Benford has served as an editor of numerous alternate history anthologies, as well as collections of Hugo Award winners.

Gregory Benford has been nominated for four Hugo Awards and 13 Nebula Awards.

Gregory Benford was a guest of honour at Aussiecon Three, the 1999 Worldcon.

Gregory Benford remains a regular contributor to science fiction fanzines, for example Apparatchik.

In 2016 Gregory Benford was the recipient of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Forry Award Lifetime Achievement Award in the Field of Science Fiction.

Gregory Benford is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, Irvine.

Gregory Benford's research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, DOE and other agencies.

Gregory Benford is an ongoing advisor to NASA, DARPA and the CIA.

In 2004, Gregory Benford proposed that the harmful effects of global warming could be reduced by the construction of a rotating Fresnel lens 1,000 kilometres across, floating in space at the Lagrangian point L1.

Gregory Benford estimated that this would cost around US$10 billion.

Gregory Benford's plan has been commented on in a variety of forums.

In 2006, Gregory Benford pointed out one possible danger in this approach: if this lens were built and global warming were avoided, there would be less incentive to reduce greenhouse gases, and humans might continue to produce too much carbon dioxide until it caused some other environmental catastrophe, such as a chemical change in ocean water that could be disastrous to ocean life.

Gregory Benford serves on the board of directors and the steering committee of the Mars Society.

Gregory Benford has advocated human cryopreservation, for example by signing an open letter to support research into cryonics, being a member of Alcor, and by being an advisor to a UK cryonics and cryopreservation advocacy group.

Gregory Benford retired from the University of California in 2006 in order to found and develop Genescient Corporation.

Gregory Benford's law of controversy is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape:.