Name Natalie Angier | Role Writer | |
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting Education Barnard College, University of Michigan Nominations National Book Award for Nonfiction Books Woman: an intimate geography, The Canon, Natural Obsessions, The beauty of the beastly, Mujer ‑ Una Geografia | ||
Natalie angier the canon a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science
Natalie Angier (born February 16, 1958 in Bronx, New York City) is an American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for The New York Times.
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- Natalie angier the canon a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science
- Science sex and society a conversation with natalie angier
- Life
- Awards
- Books
- References
Science sex and society a conversation with natalie angier
Life
After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied physics and English at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1978.
From 1980 to 1984, Angier wrote about biology for Discover Magazine. She also worked as a science writer for Time Magazine, and was briefly an adjunct professor in New York University's Graduate Program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting. In 1990, she joined The New York Times as a science writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991. She contributed the piece "Biologically Correct" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan. She was selected to be the keynote speaker for the 2009 Washington & Jefferson College Commencement exercises and is Cornell University's A.D. White (Andrew Dixon White) Professor at Large.
Angier lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with her husband, Rick Weiss, former Washington Post science and medical reporter and current Director of Strategic Communications at DARPA. Their daughter Katherine is a student at Princeton University. Angier is an outspoken atheist.