Horace Freeland Judson

Horace Freeland Judson (born April 21, 1931 in New York City , † May 6, 2011 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American journalist and science historian, best known for his book The eighth day of creation on the history of molecular biology .

Judson graduated from the University of Chicago (bachelor's degree in 1948). He was the Europe correspondent for Time Magazine in Paris and London for seven years (and reviewed books there) and then wrote for Nature , The New Yorker , The Sciences, Harpers Bazar, among others . He spent several years researching the history of science at Stanford University and at Johns Hopkins University (as Professor for Writing and the History of Sciences) and was director of the later disbanded Center for History of Recent Science and professor at George Washington University .

His book The eighth day of creation emerged from interviews with over 100 scientists and began with an encounter with Max Perutz and then with Jacques Monod (1968). A preprint appeared in The New Yorker in 1978 . He also wrote a book on fraud in science.

In 1987 he became a MacArthur Fellow .

His daughter Olivia Judson (* 1970), a biologist at Imperial College , wrote the popular science bestseller book Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation (2002) on sex life in the animal kingdom.

Fonts

• The eighth day of creation: makers of the revolution in biology , Touchstone Books 1979, 2nd edition Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1996
• Heroin Addiction: What Americans Can Learn from the English Experience , Vintage Books 1975
• The Search for Solutions , Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1982
• Science in Crisis at the Millennium , New York Academy of Sciences, 1999
• The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science , Harcourt, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11judson.html?_r=1&src=twrhp
2. ^ Horace Freeland Judson Collection at the American Philosophical Society