Matthew Cobb (born 4 February 1957) is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is known for his popular science books The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; and The Idea of the Brain: A History. Cobb has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage, The Life Scientific, and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.
Books in order of publication:
The Egg and Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth – 2006
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis (Paperback ed.). Simon & Schuster. – 2010
Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944 (Hardcover ed.). Simon & Schuster – 2013
Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (Hardcover ed.). Profile Books. – 2015
Smell: A Very Short Introduction – 2020
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience – 2020
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age – 2022
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