in addition to his business activities, myhrvold is a working scientist who has published original, peer-reviewed research in the fields of paleobiology, climate science, and astronomy. a prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer, he has also been involved with paleontological research on expeditions with the museum of the rockies. his work has appeared in scientific journals including "science", "nature", "paleobiology," "plos one", and the "physical review", as well as in "fortune", "time", "scientific american", "national geographic traveler", and "slate". he and peter rinearson helped bill gates write "the road ahead", a book about the future that reached no. 1 on the new york times bestseller list in 1995 and 1996. myhrvold has contributed $1 million to the nonprofit seti institute in mountain view, ca, for the development of the allen telescope array, which was envisioned to be the most powerful instrument for seti.