Joe Schwarcz

Joe Schwarcz is Director of the McGill Office for Science and Society. He is well known for his informative and entertaining public lectures on topics ranging from the chemistry of love to the science of aging. Dr. Joe has received numerous awards for teaching chemistry and for interpreting science for the public and is the only non-American ever to win the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack Award for demystifying chemistry. He hosts "The Dr. Joe Show" on Montreal's CJAD and has appeared hundreds of times on The Discovery Channel, CTV, CBC, TV Ontario and Global Television. He is also an amateur conjurer and often spices up his presentations with a little magic. Dr. Joe also writes a newspaper column entitled “The Right Chemistry” and has authored a number of books including best-sellers, Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs, The Genie in the Bottle, The Right Chemistry, An Apple a Day, Is That a Fact?, and Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules. Dr. Joe was awarded the 2010 Montreal Medal, the Canadian Chemical Institute’s premier prize recognizing lifetime contributions to chemistry in Canada. In 2015 he was named winner of the Balles Prize for critical thinking by the US based Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in recognition of his 2014 book, Is That A Fact?

Books by Joe Schwarcz

Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex

Quack Quack

Science Goes Viral

A Grain of Salt

A Feast of Science

Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules

The Smart Palate

Is That a Fact?

Is That a Fact?

The Right Chemistry

Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks

Dr. Joe's Health Lab

Dr. Joe's Science, Sense and Nonsense

An Apple A Day

Brain Fuel

¿De qué se alimentan los zombis?

An Apple A Day

Let Them Eat Flax!

The Fly in the Ointment

Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs

The Genie in the Bottle

Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs