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The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
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Ross Andersen
Ross Andersen is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He was previously the magazine’s deputy editor. As a writer for the magazine, he has reported from Greenland, Russia, India, Pakistan, China, South Korea, and Japan. He is also the author of The Long Search, forthcoming from Random House.
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