Nathalia Holt
Nathalia Holt (born December 13, 1980 ) is an American science journalist and non-fiction author .
Life
Holt studied microbiology at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard , the University of Southern California and Tulane University and received her Ph.D. with a dissertation on HIV - gene therapy . Your articles may appear a. in The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , The Atlantic , Slate , Popular Science , and Time . She lives in Boston with her husband and two daughters .
In her first non-fiction book, Cured , she describes two famous cases of HIV research, collectively known as The Berlin Patient . The first German patient, who remained anonymous, received experimental therapy in Berlin in 1998, whereupon the HIV virus was almost undetectable even without antiretroviral therapy . The second patient, Timothy Ray Brown , is believed to have been cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant .
In her second non-fiction book, Rise of the Rocket Girls , she writes about the first women mathematicians and scientists at NASA . She was inspired by the biography of Eleanor Francis Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory . The book is a The New York Times bestseller .
Works
- Rise of the Rocket Girls . Little, Brown and Company, New York City 2016, ISBN 978-0-316-33892-9 (338 pages).
- Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV . Dutton Penguin, 2014, ISBN 978-0-525-95392-0 (336 pages).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nathalia Holt: Biography Nathalia Holt. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ STEELE INTERVIEWS: author Nathalia Holt [CURED]. entertainmentrealm, April 5, 2014, accessed December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Nathalia Holt: Author. Scientist. HIV Researcher. (No longer available online.) TEDx Pasadena Women, archived from the original on December 11, 2016 ; accessed on December 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ George Johnson: Patients and Fortitude: 'Cured,' by Nathalia Holt. The New York Times , May 9, 2014, accessed December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Terra Dankowski: Newsmaker: Nathalia Holt. American Libraries, March 1, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Meet The Rocket Girls, The Women Who Charted The Course To Space. NPR , April 5, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
- ^ New York Times Bestsellers. The New York Times , April 24, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
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| SURNAME | Holt, Nathalia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science journalist and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1980 |