CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Lisa Belkin is a senior columnist on Life/Work/Family at the Huffington Post. She was previously at The New York Times, where she was a national correspondent based in Houston, a medical reporter, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the creator of the Life’s Work column and the Motherlode blog.

Malcolm W. Browne (1931–2012) was a longtime science writer for The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnam War for the Associated Press. His 1963 photograph of the self-immolation of a Buddhist Monk became one of the most memorable images of the conflict.

Kenneth Chang is a science reporter for The New York Times.

Ingfei Chen is a freelance health reporter whose work has been published in The New York Times, Discover, Reader’s Digest, and others.

Anne Eisenberg is a longtime technology reporter who currently writes the Novelties column for The New York Times.

Peter B. Flint (1928–1995) was a reporter for The New York Times who specialized in obituaries of film and theater figures and other notables.

James Gleick is an author, journalist, and biographer whose best-selling books include The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011) and Chaos: Making a New Science (1987). Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists.

Jascha Hoffman has written on science and culture for The New York Times, Nature, and other publications. He lives in San Francisco and is also a songwriter.

Paul Hoffman is the host of the PBS television series Great Minds of Science, and the president and CEO of Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is also the author of several books including King’s Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game (2007) and the international bestseller The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1999). He was formerly the editor in chief of Discover, the president and publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica, and is a puzzle master (under the pseudonym Dr. Crypton) and a class-A level chess player.

George Johnson is a science writer and the author of a number of books, including The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999).

David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist and author specializing in economics and tax issues. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting while at The New York Times. He is the author of several best-selling books including Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill), and since 2009 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management.

Gina Kolata reports on science and medicine for The New York Times. She is also a frequent lecturer, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of several books include Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss and the Myths and Realities of Dieting (2007), which was a finalist for the Quill book awards; and Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It (1999).

William L. Laurence (1888–1977) was a science writer for The New York Times. He received two Pulitzer Prizes, and, as the official historian of the Manhattan Project, was the only journalist to witness the 1945 Trinity test of the atom bomb in New Mexico and, shortly after, the nuclear bombing of Japan.

Henry L. Lieberman (1916–1995) was a foreign correspondent and later an editor in charge of science news for The New York Times.

Will Lissner (1909–2000) was a reporter for The New York Times from 1926 until he retired in 1976.

Steve Lohr is a technology reporter for The New York Times and is co-author of U.S. vs. Microsoft (2000). He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage of Microsoft and its antitrust battle with the United States government.

John Markoff is a science correspondent for The New York Times and the author of What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2006).

Pradeep Mutalik is a scientist at the Center for Medical Informatics at Yale University. He trained as a physician and has written on neurophysiology, animal behavior, computer science, artificial intelligence, radiology, mysticism, and consciousness.

John A. Osmundsen, a former science reporter for The New York Times, is the author of a number of books, including Sweet Reason: On Life, Love and War in the Nuclear Age.

Dennis Overbye is a science reporter for The New York Times and author of Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Search for the Secret of the Universe (1991) and Einstein in Love (2000).

John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University, and the author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988) and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995).

Sara Robinson is a journalist who has covered mathematics, computer science, economics, and technology for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times.

Bruce Schechter is a physicist, science writer, and author of My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös (1998).

Richard Severo was a New York Times reporter from 1968 until retiring in 2006.

Sidney Shalett (1911–1965) was a journalist who wrote for the Chattanooga Times and The New York Times, and was a Washington correspondent for American Magazine.

Leonard Silk (1918–1995), who had a Ph.D. in economics, was a columnist and editorial writer for The New York Times and Business Week.

Janet Stites is a journalist and consultant specializing in science, technology, and business. She was the founder and publisher of tech/finance magazine AlleyCat News. She and has written for Portfolio Magazine, AllBusiness.com, Fortune Small Business, and the Bulletin of the Santa Fe Institute.

Walter Sullivan (1918–1996) was an award-winning science reporter and editor for The New York Times and during his fifty-year career was considered the dean of science writers.

Clive Thompson is a Canadian journalist who writes about the social and cultural impact of digital technologies for a number of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and Wired.

John Tierney writes the Findings column for the Science Times section of The New York Times. He is the co-author, with Roy Baumeister, of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (2011).

Bina Venkataraman designs and leads international projects and helps shape the nation’s science and technology policy agenda. She teaches at MIT and writes for publications including The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Peter Wayner, who contributes frequently to The New York Times, is the author of several books on technology, including Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding.

Joseph Williams is a former editor in the business section of The New York Times.