Reto U. Schneider
Reto U. Schneider (* 1963 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss science journalist .
After studying electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich and two years as an electrical engineer at Ascom, Schneider graduated from the Ringier School of Journalism . He attended as EICOS -Fellow the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried and as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge .
After several years of professional activity as a freelance journalist and as head of the science department for the news magazine Facts from Tamedia , he joined the editorial team of the NZZ Folio in 1999 and has been its deputy editor-in-chief since 2006. In 2004 he published his columns in the NZZ Folio in the anthology “Das Buch der Verrückten Expere ” (The Book of Crazy Experiments) , which was translated into eight languages and was named “ Science Book of the Year ” ( Image of Science ) in Germany. In 2009 he published «The new book of crazy experiments» .
Other prizes that Schneider has received include the “ Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize ” (2007 for an article on sales psychology ) and the “Prix Media” of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (2004 for an article about an animal asylum for former experimental monkeys ), the cogito Prize (2010), the Hofschneider Research Prize (2012) and the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism (2014). In 2018 Schneider received the Helmut Sontag Prize . He has also been voted “Swiss Science Journalist of the Year” four times.
From 2001 to 2005 he was President of the Swiss Club for Science Journalism.
Reto Schneider lives in Zurich with his wife and son.
Publications
- Planet hunter: The exciting discovery of alien worlds . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel [u. a.] 1997, ISBN 3-7643-5607-3 .
- The book of crazy experiments . Bertelsmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-570-00792-8 .
- The new book of crazy experiments . Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01071-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Reto U. Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Reto U. Schneider
- Reto U. Schneider on the NZZ Folio website
- Reto U. Schneider in conversation with Kurt Aeschbacher , broadcast on February 25, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Price war in the Bückzone ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: NZZ Folio . 11/06.
- ↑ Prize Winner 2007. 2nd Prize Winner: Reto U. Schneider. Website of the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize .
- ↑ In the golden cage ( memento of November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: NZZ Folio. 08/03.
- ↑ Reto U. Schneider “In the golden cage”, NZZ Folio ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Laudation by Sylvia Egli von Matt , given on the occasion of the award ceremony on October 7, 2004 in Sarnen (PDF; 4 kB).
- ^ «Cogito-Preis 2010» to Reto U. Schneider: Science understandable ( Memento from September 1st, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). cogito foundation , July 14, 2010 (press release; PDF; 4 kB).
- ↑ Publicist Award of the German Libraries 2018 goes to Reto U. Schneider , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on May 4, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Reto U. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schneider, Reto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss science journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn |