Natalie Angier

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Natalie Marie Angier (born February 16, 1958 in Bronx , New York City ) is an American science journalist and non-fiction author . In 1991 she received the Pulitzer Prize .

Life

Natalie Angier is a daughter of Keith Angier and Adele Bernice Angier, née Rosenthal. She first studied for two years at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . She then studied physics, astronomy and English at Barnard College in New York and graduated in 1978 with a bachelor's degree with the title magna cum laude . From 1980 to 1984 she published articles in the field of biology in the monthly magazine Discover . She worked as a scientific writer for the news magazine Time and worked for a time as an adjunct professor in the Graduate Program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting at New York University .

Natalie Angier made her debut in 1988 with the monograph Natural Obsessions on the pursuit of research into cancer cells. In 1990 she was hired as a scientific journalist for the New York Times newspaper and received the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting . In September 1991 she married Richard “Rick” Steven Weiss and in August 1996 gave birth to their daughter Katherine Ida Weiss Angier. She wrote the specialist article Biologically Correct for the anthology Sisterhood is Forever. The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium , edited by Robin Morgan and published in 2003. Angier is an atheist and received the Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003 from the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin .

From 2006 to 2016 she participated in the Program Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University in Ithaca part.

In 2009, she was selected to be the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington and Cornell University . She is a long-time member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), since 2008 an honorary member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Association and an honorary member of the Society for Women's Health Research . She is a columnist for The New York Times . In 2005 she became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Publications

  • Natural obsessions. The Search for the Oncogene . Houghton Mifflin , Boston 1988, ISBN 0-395-45370-4 .
  • The Beauty of the Beastly. New Views on the Nature of Life . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1995, ISBN 0-395-71816-3 .
    • German translation by Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg: Nice hideous. New views of nature - of brutal dolphins, tender cockroaches and devious orchids . Goldmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-442-15094-9 .
  • Woman. An Intimate Geography . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1999, ISBN 0-395-69130-3 .
    • German translation by Ditte and Giovanni Bandini: Frau. An intimate geography of the female body . Bertelsmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-570-00381-7 .
  • with Tim Folger (Ed.): The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002 . Mariner Books, Boston 2002, ISBN 0-618-08297-2 .
  • The Canon. A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-618-24295-5 .
  • with Jesse Cohen: The Best American Science Writing 2009 . Ecco Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-143166-1 .

Specialist articles in anthologies

  • Biologically Correct . In: Robin Morgan (ed.): Sisterhood is Forever. The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium . Square Press, Washington 2003, ISBN 0-7434-6627-6 , pp. 3-16.
  • The Origin, Procreation and Hopes of an Angry Feminist . In: Cathi Hanauer (Ed.): The Bitch in the House. 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage . HarperCollins / William Morrow, 2003, ISBN 0-06-621166-2 , pp. 217-226.

Filmography

Selection of awards / prizes

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emperor Has No Clothes Award - Natalie Angier - 2003. Freedom From Religion Foundation , 2003, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
  2. ↑ All Professors at Large 1965 to June 30, 2022. Cornell University , 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
  3. ↑ Natalie Angier - Honorary Member 2008. Sigma Xi , 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
  4. ^ Society for Women's Health Research - Honorary Members of the Board. Retrieved November 8, 2016 (American English).
  5. ↑ Natalie Angier. In: The New York Times . Retrieved November 16, 2016 (American English).
  6. ^ Member History: Natalie Marie Angier. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 10, 2018 (with a short biography).
  7. ^ Intervenants - Natalie Angier - Ecrivain. 2005, accessed on November 18, 2016 (French).
  8. ^ AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award - Newspapers. American Association for the Advancement of Science , November 14, 2013, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
  9. ^ Emperor Has No Clothes Award - Natalie Angier - 2003. Freedom From Religion Foundation , 2003, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
  10. ↑ Nathan Bupp: CSI's Robert P. Balles Award Goes to New York Times science writer Natalie Angier. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry , August 4, 2008, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
  11. ^ Natalie Angier, 2014 Humanist Media Award. TheHumanist.com, October 21, 2014, accessed November 6, 2016 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Angier, Natalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Natalie Marie Angier (full maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City