Laura Justine Garwin (born 1957) is an American trumpeter and former science journalist.
[2] She then went to Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University), following her father's footsteps as a physics major but also playing trumpet in multiple student music groups and playing for the school's volleyball and water polo teams.
[5] After a second bachelor's degree from Oxford, she went to the University of Cambridge for a doctorate in earth sciences; her dissertation research applied fission track dating to the geology of the eastern Pyrenees.
[7] Her book A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World (edited with Tim Lincoln) was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003.
[8] She is also the coauthor with Philip Ball of a heavily-cited 1992 Nature report on nanotechnology, Science at the atomic scale.